Patent ID: 8498225

Claim:
A method for controlling a Single Frequency Network comprising: obtaining a service request sent by a User Equipment; and modifying the Single Frequency Network according to the service request, wherein modifying the Single Frequency Network according to the service request comprises: performing control of the Single Frequency Network; and sending signaling to a base station involved in the control of the Single Frequency Network, wherein, before modifying the Single Frequency Network according to the service request, performing statistics and analysis on the service request; and determining whether to initiate the control of the Single Frequency Network according to a result of the statistics and analysis, wherein performing the control of the Single Frequency Network comprises at least one of: adding or removing the Single Frequency Network according to the service request; and adding the base station to the Single Frequency Network or removing the base station from the Single Frequency Network, wherein adding the Single Frequency Network according to the service request comprises: determining one or more base stations serving User Equipments requesting for one or more types of services; and if one or more independent base stations not belonging to the Single Frequency Network are included in the one or more base stations, combining the independent base stations into a new Single Frequency Network, and providing, by the new Single Frequency Network, the one or more types of services; or, after the determining one or more base stations serving the User Equipments requesting for the one or more types of services, making a sequence of the determined base stations in a decreasing order of the numbers of the User Equipments requesting for the one or more types of services that are served by the base stations, and selecting first one or more base stations in the sequence of the determined base stations as one or more new base stations to be combined into the new Single Frequency Network; and if the new base stations belong to an original Single Frequency Network, removing the new base stations from the original Single Frequency Network; and providing the one or more types of services within the new Single Frequency Network.