Patent ID: 8934394
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A receiving method for a mobile station in a multi-cell wireless system using a frame structure, each frame containing a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, the method comprising: receiving a sequence of consecutive frames, the sequence of consecutive frames comprising a plurality of first frames and a plurality of second frames that are intermixed in accordance with an intermixing configuration pattern, each of the first frames containing time-frequency resources used for content multicasting or broadcasting (MB) via a single frequency network (SFN) that is comprised of base stations in multiple cells transmitting the same MB content using OFDM and employing a same time and frequency resource, and each of the second frames containing time-frequency resources used for data unicasting without the use of a SFN; receiving a scheduling signal containing a bit-map that indicates the intermixing configuration pattern of the received first and second frames by using “1” in the bit-map to represent a first frame and a “0” in the bit-map to represent a second frame, or a “1” in the bit-map to represent a first frame and a “0” in the bit-map to represent a second frame; and utilizing the received bit-map to identify the first and second frames.