Patent ID: 8942154
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for multiplexing multiple Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) services in a Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN), comprising: at the beginning of a session, determining, by a Broadcast Multicast Service Center (BM-SC), MBMS services to be multiplexed together; estimating, by the BM-SC, a bandwidth requirement needed for multiplexing the MBMS services together and informing an MBMS Coordination Entity (MCE) of the estimated bandwidth requirement so as to assign radio resources by the MCE; receiving, by the BM-SC, packet data for the MBMS services to be multiplexed together, from a server; prioritizing, by the BM-SC, the MBMS services to be multiplexed together if the actual bandwidth that is occupied by the packet data for the MBMS services to be multiplexed together exceeds the estimated bandwidth requirement; reordering, by the BM-SC, the packet data for the MBMS services to be multiplexed together according to the result of prioritization, and informing respective base stations in the MBSFN area of the result of reordering; and multiplexing, by the respective base stations, respective copies of the packet data for the MBMS services to be multiplexed together on radio resources assigned by the MCE and transmitting the respective multiplexed packet data according to the result of reordering informed by the BM-SC.