Patent ID: 7680496
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communications method relating to a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) of multicasting or broadcasting a multimedia data to a plurality of mobile stations in a communications system, said communications method comprising: a power ratio receiving step of receiving 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 given cells and a power of a common pilot channel used for transmitting an information on reference of timing in each of the given cells; a service information receiving step of receiving service information indicating a state of an MBMS service in said each of the given cells; and a cell selecting step of acquiring a set including a plurality of cells from which a mobile station can receive an MBMS on the basis of the information about said power ratio which is received in said power ratio receiving step, and said service information received in said service information receiving step.