Patent ID: 8797939

Claim:
A method for scheduling and transmitting a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), comprising: for each multicast radio interface channel, a lower layer network element scheduling data of the MBMS and generating scheduling information on multiple Multicast/Broadcast over Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframes occupied by the multicast radio interface channel in multiple resource allocation periods corresponding to a scheduling period of the multicast radio interface channel, wherein the scheduling period is used for dynamical multiplexing of the MBMS and one scheduling period corresponds to multiple resource allocation periods in a same time period, location information of the data of each MBMS in said scheduling information is represented by a number of a first or a last MBSFN subframe occupied by the data of the MBMS in the scheduling period, or by a number of occupied MBSFN subframes in the scheduling period, wherein numbers of the MBSFN subframes are obtained by sequentially numbering with consecutive integers all the MBSFN subframes of the multiple resource allocation periods occupied by the multicast radio interface channel in each scheduling period independently, and said lower layer network element sending a signaling to a user equipment, wherein the signaling indicates resource allocation information and scheduling period information of each multicast radio interface channel, and sending the data of the MBMS and said scheduling information to the user equipment.