Patent ID: 9065613
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a terminal for receiving E-MBS (enhanced-multicast and broadcast service) service in a multicarrier system, the method comprising: establishing, by the terminal, E-MBS service connection with a base station; transmitting, by the terminal to the base station, an E-MBS report message including report mode information related with a carrier switching operation, wherein the report mode information indicates that the terminal requests the base station to assign the carrier switching operation start time or the terminal ends the carrier switching operation; receiving, by the terminal from the base station, an E-MBS response message in response to the E-MBS report message; and starting, by the terminal, a carrier switching operation upon starting to receive the E-MBS service and stopping the carrier switching operation upon terminating the E-MBS-service, wherein the carrier switching operation start time is 4 least significant bits of a superframe number at which the terminal starts the carrier switching operation.