Patent ID: 7996008

Claim:
A mobile station which can receive a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) of multicasting or broadcasting a multimedia data to a plurality of mobile stations in a communications system, said mobile station comprising: a power ratio receiving unit for receiving together, from one cell, respective information about a power ratio between a power of a common control physical channel used for multicasting or broadcasting said multimedia data in each of given cells and a power of a common pilot channel used for transmitting an information on reference of timing in each of the given cells; a service information receiving unit of receiving service information indicating a state of an MBMS service in each of the given cells; a ranking unit for ranking the plurality of cells on the basis of the information about said power ratio in each of the given cells, which is received by said power ratio receiving unit, and the power of said common pilot channel; and a cell selecting unit of acquiring a set including a plurality of cells from which the mobile station can receive an MBMS on the basis of the information about the ranking determined by said ranking unit and a predetermined threshold, and said service information received by said service information receiving unit.