Patent ID: 9036484
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: H04J,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method in a base station of a serving cell for transmitting Multimedia Broadcast Single-Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe configuration information of neighboring cells, comprising: transmitting first information associated with a MBSFN subframe configuration of the serving cell to a User Equipment (UE) in the serving cell; transmitting second information including a first value if no MBSFN subframes are present in the all neighboring cells, a second value if MBSFN subframe configurations of all the neighboring cells are subsets of the subframe configuration of the serving cell, and a third value if MBSFN subframe configurations of some of the neighboring cells are not a subset of the subframe configuration of the serving cell; and receiving measurement information of the neighboring cells from the UE, wherein subframes associated with the measurement information are determined based on the second information, wherein, if the second information includes the first value, the subframes associated with the measurement information are preset subframes, wherein, if the second information includes the second value, the subframes associated with the measurement information are subframes of the neighboring cells that are the same as the measurement subframes of the serving cell, and wherein, if the second information includes the third value, the subframes associated with the measurement information are all subframes of the neighboring cells.