Patent ID: 8670359

Claim:
A method of controlling transmission of multicast broadcast service (MBS) data at a base station (BS) in a broadband wireless access system, the method comprising: receiving, at the BS, dedicated downlink burst profile information for a dedicated downlink burst profile suitable for transmitting downlink data to each of a plurality of mobile subscriber stations, wherein the dedicated downlink burst profile information includes information about link quality of a channel; configuring, at the BS, the dedicated downlink burst profile corresponding to each of the plurality of mobile subscriber stations using the dedicated downlink burst profile information; transmitting, from the BS, the downlink data to each of the plurality of mobile subscriber stations using the corresponding dedicated downlink burst profiles; selecting, at the BS, a most robust dedicated downlink burst profile among the dedicated downlink burst profiles as a common MBS burst profile suitable for broadcasting the MBS data, wherein the most robust dedicated downlink burst profile is the dedicated downlink burst profile of a specific mobile subscriber station having a weakest downlink signal quality among the plurality of mobile subscriber stations; broadcasting, from the BS, the MBS data to the plurality of mobile subscriber stations using the selected common MBS burst profile; receiving, at the BS, a dedicated downlink burst profile change request message from the specific mobile subscriber station including downlink burst profile information for a changed dedicated downlink burst profile related to one or more mobile subscriber stations among the plurality of mobile subscriber stations; changing, at the BS, the selected common MBS burst profile from the most robust dedicated downlink burst profile to the changed downlink burst profile upon receiving the dedicated downlink burst profile change request message; broadcasting, by the BS, the MBS data to the plurality of mobile subscriber stations using the changed common MBS burst profile; and transmitting a MBS traffic indication and a next MBS MAP frame offset to at least one idle-mode mobile subscriber station among the plurality of mobile subscriber stations before broadcasting the MBS data, wherein the MBS traffic indication indicates whether the BS will be broadcasting the MBS data, and wherein the next MBS MAP frame offset is used to inform the at least one idle-mode mobile subscriber station of when the MBS data will be transmitted.