Patent ID: 9596696
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for determining a broadcast transmission scheme for an area, the method comprising: receiving channel quality indicators from a plurality of wireless devices; determining a location for each of the plurality of wireless devices; classifying a geographic area as a first broadcast classification based on the channel quality indicators received from wireless devices that comprise a location proximate to the geographic area, wherein the geographic area is defined relative to the determined locations for the wireless devices; determining a transmission scheme for a broadcast transmission to wireless devices proximate to the geographic area based on the first broadcast classification, the transmission scheme comprising at least a modulation and coding scheme for the broadcast transmission; and instructing at least two access nodes to transmit the broadcast using the determined transmission scheme for the geographic area, the geographic area overlapping signal areas for the at least two access nodes.