Patent ID: 8364149
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A base station which can be used for providing a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) of multicasting or broadcasting a multimedia data to a plurality of mobile stations in a communications system, said base station comprising: a power ratio transmitting unit for transmitting together, from one cell, respective information about a power ratio between a power of a common control physical channel used for multicasting or broadcasting said multimedia data in each of neighbor cells and a power of a common pilot channel used for transmitting an information on reference of timing in each of the neighbor cells; and a service information transmitting unit for transmitting service information indicating a state of an MBMS service in said each of the neighbor cells, wherein said base station transmits the information about said power ratio and said service information to said mobile station in order to enable a mobile station which will receive the information about said power ratio and said service information to determine a ranking of a plurality of cells on the basis of the information about said power ratio in each of the neighbor cells and the power of said common pilot channels, and enable the mobile station to determine a set including the plurality of cells from which a mobile station can receive an MBMS on the basis of the determined ranking and a predetermined threshold, and said service information.