Patent ID: 8773983

Claim:
A method for performing statistical multiplexing of services with different Quality of Service Class Identifiers (QCIs) in an evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service e-MBMS system, comprising: at an evolved Broadcast Multicast Service Center eBM-SC, determining a statistical multiplexing bundle and information of the statistical multiplexing bundle for e-MBMS services, wherein the statistical multiplexing bundle comprises multiple services with different QCIs, and services with the same QCI constitute a statistical multiplexing sub-bundle in the statistical multiplexing bundle, the information of the statistical multiplexing bundle comprising: a QCI for each e-MBMS service in the statistical multiplexinq bundle, a service list and an Aggregated Bundle Bit Rate ABBR of each statistical multiplexing sub-bundle, and an ABBR of the statistical multiplexing bundle; at an MBMS Collaborative Entity MCE, determining an ABBR bundle based on the information of the statistical multiplexing bundle determined by eBM-SC and according to a predetermined standard, and performing statistical multiplexing scheduling for the services of the ABBR bundle so that multiple services belonging to the same ABBR bundle share resources allocated to the ABBR bundle.