JP4520924B2

3G,2G

Title

CHANNEL SWITCHING FOR SUPPORT OF MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST AND MULTICAST SERVICE

Application Number:

JP20050281996

Publication Date:

11-08-2010

Current Assignee:

Family ID:

Application Date:

28-09-2005

Declaring Company:

Publication Country:

US

Priority Date:

07-08-2002

Title

CHANNEL SWITCHING FOR SUPPORT OF MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST AND MULTICAST SERVICE

Application Number:

JP20050281996

Family ID:

Publication Country:

US

Publication Date:

11-08-2010

Application Date:

28-09-2005

Priority Date:

07-08-2002

Current Assignee:

Declaring Company:

Abstract  Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method having better resource utilization for MBMS.

SOLUTION: A radio access network and a method are disclosed for sending multimedia broadcasts/multicast services (MBMS) using channel switching. The channel switching is between dedicated and shared/common channels. The network and the method include MBMS reception scheduling for use when a wireless transmit/receive device receives an MBMS service from multiple transmission sources. The sources transmitting the MBMS service data in differing orders. One embodiment uses in-band segmentation information and another embodiment uses out-of-band synchronization information.

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