METHOD, MCE AND BASE STATION FOR DYNAMICALLY DISPATCHING RADIO RESOURCES FOR MBSFN TRANSMISSION

• US 20120044850A1
• Filed: 04/28/2009
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Wang, He
• Application Number:
  US13/266,636
• Publication Number:
  US 20120044850A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/30 Resource management for broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/543 based on requested quality, e.g. QoS

Abstract

A method for dynamically dispatching radio resources used for Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) transmissions for Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) is provided, comprising: for a current dispatching period, determining, by a Multi-Cell/Multicast Coordination Entity (MCE), semi-static MBMS dispatching information for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group, according to the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of each MBMS service or each MBMS service group used for MBSFN transmission, wherein said MBMS service group is a service group formed by statistically multiplexing a plurality of MBMS services that have the same Block Error Rate as their QoS requirements; informing, by said MCE, each base station and respective mobile stations under the control of each base station in an MBSFN area of the determined semi-static MBMS dispatching information; and, dispatching, by each base station, the radio resources dynamically, according to the semi-static MBMS dispatching information received from the MCE and actual data volume to be processed by each MBMS service or each MBMS service group.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically dispatching radio resources used for Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) transmissions for Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), comprising:

determining, by a Multi-Cell/Multicast Coordination Entity (MCE), for a current dispatching period, semi-static MBMS dispatching information for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group, according to Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of each MBMS service or each MBMS service group used for MBSFN transmission, wherein said MBMS service group is a service group formed by statistically multiplexing a plurality of MBMS services that have the same Block Error Rate as their QoS requirements;

informing, by said MCE, each base station and respective mobile stations under the control of each base station in an MBSFN area of the determined semi-static MBMS dispatching information; and

dispatching, by each base station, the radio resources dynamically according to the semi-static MBMS dispatching information received from the MCE and actual data volume to be processed by each MBMS service or each MBMS service group.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said semi-static MBMS dispatching information comprising:

transmission sequence information for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group, MBMS subframe allocation pattern (MSAP) information and Modulation and Coding Solution (MCS) information, wherein said MSAP information indicates the maximal range of allocated MBSFN subframes used for MBSFN transmission for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein there is an internal transmission sequence used for MBSFN transmission for each MBMS service forming the MBMS service group, wherein said internal transmission sequence is determined by the MCE according to the QoS requirements of each MBMS service forming the MBMS service group, the QoS requirements comprising priority level or delay of each MBMS service forming said MBMS service group.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said dispatching the radio resources dynamically comprising:

if the actual data volume to be processed by each MBMS service or each MBMS service group does not occupy all the MBSFN subframes allocated for said MBMS service or said MBMS service group indicated by said MSAP information, using MBSFN subframes being unoccupied for unicast services; and

if the actual data volume to be processed by each MBMS service or each MBMS service group does not fill up all the MBSFN subframes allocated for said MBMS service or said MBMS service group indicated by said MSAP information, adding filling data only into the last MBSFN subframe for said MBMS service, or adding filling data only into the last MBSFN subframe for the last MBMS service among all the MBMS services forming said MBMS service group.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein

for each MBMS service, said MSAP information and said MCS information are determined according to Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) or Maximal Bit Rate (MBR) for said MBMS service;

for each MBMS service group, said MSAP information and said MCS information are determined according to the QoS requirements of Aggregative Group Bit Rate and Block Error Rate for said MBMS service group; and

said transmission sequence information is determined according to priority level or delay for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein informing, by said MCE, each base station and respective mobile stations under the control of each base station in an MBSFN area of the determined semi-static MBMS dispatching information comprising:

informing, by said MCE, each base station in the MBSFN area of said semi-static MBMS dispatching information via an M2 interface; and

transmitting, by each base station, the semi-static MBMS dispatching information received by said base station from the MCE to respective mobile stations through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling via a Uu interface.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein informing, by said MCE, each base station in the MBSFN area of said semi-static MBMS dispatching information via an M2 interface comprises:

transmitting a semi-static MBMS dispatching information message including said semi-static MBMS dispatching information to each base station from said MCE via the M2 interface; and

receiving, by each base station, the semi-static MBMS dispatching information message from the MCE over the M2 interface and feeding back, by the base station, a semi-static MBMS dispatching information response message to indicate whether said semi-static MBMS dispatching information message has been received correctly.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein said RRC signaling comprises:

MBMS modified service information signaling, MBMS unmodified service information signaling and Point to Multipoint Radio Bearer (PTM RB) information signaling for the current cell.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein result of the dynamic dispatching obtained from the dynamic dispatching of the radio resources by each base station is transmitted to respective mobile stations from the base station utilizing an “

MBMS dispatching information media accessing control MAC element”

, for said mobile stations to receive from the base station and decode desired MBMS service or MBMS service group.

6. (canceled)

11. A Multi-Cell/Multicast Coordination Entity (MCE) for dynamically dispatching radio resources used for Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) transmissions for Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), comprising:

a dispatching information determining means for determining, for a current dispatching period, semi-static MBMS dispatching information for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group, according to Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of each MBMS service or each MBMS service group used for MBSFN transmission, wherein said MBMS service group is a service group formed by statistically multiplexing a plurality of MBMS services that have the same Block Error Rate as their QoS requirements; and

a dispatching information transmitting means for transmitting a semi-static MBMS dispatching information message including said semi-static MBMS dispatching information to each base station in an MBSFN area.

12. The MCE of claim 11, wherein said MCE further comprising:

a feedback receiving means for receiving a semi-static MBMS dispatching information response message fed back from each base station, to determine whether the semi-static MBMS dispatching information message transmitted to the base station has been received correctly.

13. The MCE of claim 11, wherein said semi-static MBMS dispatching information comprising:

transmission sequence information for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group, MBMS subframe allocation pattern (MSAP) information and Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) information, wherein said MSAP information indicates the maximal range of allocated MBSFN subframes used for MBSFN transmission for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group.

14. A base station for dynamically dispatching radio resources used for Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) transmissions for Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), comprising:

a dispatching information receiving means for receiving a semi-static MBMS dispatching information message from a Multi-Cell/Multicast Coordination Entity (MCE), wherein said semi-static MBMS dispatching information message includes the semi-static MBMS dispatching information for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group determined by the MCE according to the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of each MBMS service or each MBMS service group used for MBSFN transmission; and

a dynamic dispatching means for dynamically dispatching the radio resources, for a current dispatching period, according to the semi-static MBMS dispatching information included in the received semi-static MBMS dispatching information message and actual data volume to be processed by each MBMS service or each MBMS service group.

15. The base station of claim 14, wherein said base station further comprising:

a dispatching information transmitting means for transmitting the received semi-static MBMS dispatching information to respective mobile station through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling; and

a feedback means for feeding back a semi-static MBMS dispatching information response message to the MCE to indicate whether said semi-static MBMS dispatching information message has been received correctly.

16. The base station of claim 14, wherein said semi-static MBMS dispatching information comprises:

transmission sequence information for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group, MBMS subframe allocation pattern (MSAP) information and Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) information, wherein said MSAP information indicates the maximal range of allocated MBSFN subframes used for MBSFN transmission for each MBMS service or each MBMS service group.