Patent ID: 9577846
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for adaptive channel estimation in a wireless network configured for Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), the method comprising a wireless communication device: receiving a plurality of frames from the wireless network, each frame comprising a plurality of subframes, each subframe comprising a plurality of symbols; determining whether each frame in the plurality of frames includes MBMS data by comparing, for each subframe of a frame, one or more of: excluding from a channel estimation process one or more symbols in MBMS Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) regions of one or more subframes of frames determined to include MBMS data; including in the channel estimation process at least one symbol in non-MBSFN regions of one or more subframes of frames determined to include MBMS data; and including in the channel estimation process multiple symbols from multiple subframes of frames determined to not include MBMS data.