Patent ID: 8942153
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for receiving multicast/broadcast data to be transmitted by a plurality of subcarriers, the method comprising: receiving a transport format representing characteristics of a radio frames, wherein the transport format includes information on at least two of the following: a number of data symbols included in the radio frames, a length of a cyclic prefix transmitted with the plurality of data symbols or a type of the pilot signals; receiving, from each of a plurality of cells, the radio frame including a plurality of data symbols, wherein the plurality of data symbols include multicast/broadcast data; and retrieving the multicast/broadcast data from the plurality of data symbols, wherein each of the plurality of data symbols includes the pilot signal for the multicast/broadcast data, wherein, if the plurality of cells transmit the same multicast/broadcast data at the same time, the same pilot signals are received at same frequencies in each of the plurality of data symbols, and wherein, if the plurality of cells transmit the different multicast/broadcast data at the same time, the different pilot signals are received at different frequencies in each of the plurality of data symbols, wherein a first data symbol of the plurality of data symbols received from each of the plurality of cells includes information indicating which kind of pilot signal is used.