Patent ID: 8879470

Claim:
A method of performing cooperative beam forming, comprising: grouping user equipment served by a target sector of a select base station of a cellular communication network into a central user group or an edge user group based at least in part on measurement reports received from the corresponding user equipment; multiplexing unicast and multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) data in conjunction with serving user equipment in the central user group, wherein the multiplexing is based at least in part on superposition coding; and configuring common physical resources for cooperative beam forming among the target sector and at least one neighboring sector associated with the select base station or one or more neighboring base station in conjunction with providing MBMS to user equipment in the edge user group, wherein the cooperative beam forming is based at least in part on fixed grid of beams (GoB), wherein each one or more neighboring base station is adjacent to the select base station and each neighboring sector is adjacent to the target sector.