Patent ID: 8483113

Claim:
An apparatus for packetizing Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) traffic in a system providing a broadcasting service, the apparatus comprising: a fragmentation unit for receiving MBS traffic from a network and for fragmentizing the MBS traffic for synchronization; a Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) packet generator for generating a GRE packet with each of segments from the fragmentation unit, the GRE packet comprising at least one of a traffic identifier for identifying an MBS, an MBS zone identifier, a broadcast channel identifier, and synchronization information; and a communication unit for transmitting the GRE packet from the GRE packet generator to a Base Station (BS), wherein the GRE packet comprises synchronization information and the synchronization information comprises at least one of time stamping information corresponding to an absolute broadcast time, and packing and fragmentation information, and wherein the synchronization information is following a GRE header of the GRE packet.