Patent ID: 7940723

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a media access control (MAC) sublayer configured to map bearer traffic to a plurality of transport channels; a mapper coupled to the MAC sublayer and configured to map the bearer traffic, through the plurality of transport channels, to a plurality of physical channels; and a plurality of physical layers coupled to the mapper and configured to transmit the bearer traffic in the plurality of physical channels over a plurality of radio frequency (RF) carriers, the plurality of physical layers respectively corresponding the plurality of RF carriers, wherein each of the plurality of RF carriers has at least three physical channels of the plurality of physical channels including a downlink physical broadcast channel (DL-PBCH), a downlink physical control channel (DL-PCCH), and a downlink physical data channel (DL-PDCH); wherein the mapper is further configured to dynamically map multicast pilot channels, multicast shared channels, paging channels, synchronization channels, common control channels, or configuration channels to the DL-PBCH; unicast shared channels to the DL-PDCH; and dedicated control channels to the DL-PCCH.