Patent ID: 9642117
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method in a network node for selecting transmission mode to a cell providing Multicasting/Broadcasting Multimedia Service, MBMS, which cell is served by the network node in a MBMS single frequency network and comprising at least one user equipment receiving or requesting MBMS data, the method comprising: obtaining a first parameter related to a quality of the MBMS experienced by a user equipment, wherein the obtaining comprises: receiving, from the user equipment, a second parameter indicating whether the user equipment is able to receive MBMS data from MBMS resource blocks (RBs) of one or more neighboring cells with adequate quality, and using the received second parameter to obtain the first parameter; comparing the first parameter with a predefined first threshold value; and selecting a transmission mode to the cell based on a result of the comparison.