Patent ID: 8914050
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of transmitting a paging message by a base station, the method comprising: allocating a paging group to a mobile station; transmitting, to the mobile station, a first control message including one or more identifiers for one or more paging groups and one or more bitmaps, wherein the one or more bitmaps correspond to the one or more paging groups, respectively, and each bitmap includes a plurality of bits corresponding to a plurality of carriers and represents whether each of the plurality of carriers corresponds to a paging carrier used for transmitting a paging message for a paging group corresponding to the each bitmap; selecting a paging transmission carrier for the mobile station among one or more paging carriers corresponding to the paging group allocated to the mobile station; and transmitting the paging message through the paging transmission carrier.