Patent ID: 9001725
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions which when executed by a processor cause a central control to: determine a plurality of multicast traffic channels (MTCHs) that belong to a single multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN); select a multiplexing scheme for the plurality of MTCHs; and cause one or more enhanced node Bs (ENB) to map the plurality of MTCHs according to the multiplexing scheme to a single multicast transport channel (MCH) layer over a variable scheduling period (SP), wherein traffic from the plurality of MTCHs is allocated to a plurality of transport blocks (TBs) of the SP, wherein the selected multiplexing scheme is a time-first multiplexing scheme, wherein traffic from each of the plurality of MTCHs is sequentially mapped to a plurality of sub-frames of the SP, such that all traffic from a first MTCH is mapped to the sub-frames of the SP before mapping traffic from a second MTCH to the sub-frames of the SP, and wherein at least some of the plurality of TBs of one of the sub-frames includes traffic from more than one of the MTCHs during transitioning from transmitting a last remaining content from the first MTCH to transmitting a first content from the second MTCH.