Patent ID: 9019888
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating in a Multicast Broadcast Service (MBS) communication network, the method comprising: determining if at least one packet among a plurality of packets received at an at least one controller among a plurality of controllers is a MBS packet, the at least one controller configured to communicate with a plurality of Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs), a master controller being selected from the plurality of controllers, the plurality of controllers including the master controller and at least one slave controller; encoding at least one MBS frame using the MBS packet; embedding the at least one MBS frame with at least one MBS portion, the at least one MBS portion including at least a part of at least one MBS packet; further embedding the at least one MBS frame with a MBS MAP, the MBS MAP including at least one MBS DATA Information Element (IE) associated with the at least one MBS portion, the at least one MBS DATA IE being used to determine a configuration and location of the at least one MBS portion in the MBS frame, the at least one MBS frame being divided into at least one fragment among a plurality of fragments, the at least one fragment corresponding to a Fragment Size (FS) of the at least one MBS frame, a size of the at least one MBS portion being equal to the FS of the at least one MBS frame; and transmitting the at least one MBS frame from the at least one BTS to at least one Mobile Station (MS) at a predetermined Take Off Time (TOT) based on a predefined criterion, the predefined criterion including the master controller encoding the at least one MBS frame, the master controller creates at least one MBS packet-queue from the at least one MBS packet, the at least one MBS packet-queue including a plurality of MBS packets, the at least one MBS packet in the at least one MBS packet-queue having the predetermined TOT, the at least one MBS packet-queue being assigned a Connection Identifier (CID) based on a corresponding MBS flow including the at least one MBS packet in the at least one MBS packet-queue.