Target cell selection for multimedia broadcast multicast service continuity

X Zhang, J Wang, Z Liu, A Garavaglia, KC Lee… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
(MBMS) over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) ser vice and idle mode unicast service
for a mobile entity from a source base station to a target base station may be managed by a …

Maintaining MBMS continuity

R Purnadi, Z Cai - US Patent 8,750,181, 2014 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND AS telecommunications technology has evolved, more advanced network
access equipment has been introduced that can provide services that were not possible …

Efficient multimedia broadcast multicast service continuity methods

RW Purnadi, Z Cai, RC Burbidge, T Suzuki - US Patent 8,750,179, 2014 - Google Patents
A method is provided for a UE to receive a MBMS. The method includes, when the UE
initiates a handover from a first cell that is providing the MBMS, the UE adding a TMGI …

Methods to support continuous MBMS reception without network assistance

CC Hsu - US Patent 9,185,682, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT In an LTE/LTE-A system, a UE subscribes to an MBMS service in a source
cell. In one embodiment, the UE with ongoing MBMS service handovers to a target cell. The …

Methods for binding and unbinding a MBMS bearer to a communication group in a 3GPP compliant system

MF Korus, PM Drozt, MM Antonelli… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
A 3GPP compliant system includes a radio access network (RAN) partitioned into a plurality
MBMS services areas, wherein each MBMS service area has a plurality of MBMS bearers …

Apparatus and methods for moving relay interference mitigation in mobile eg cellular communication networks

Y Shoshan, A Schwartz - US Patent 10,560,955, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A system for multicarrier cellular communication in a cel lular network
including a multiplicity of nodes, the system comprising, at an individual moving relay from …

Methods for tranporting a plurality of media streams over a shared MBMS bearer in a 3GPP compliant communication system

PM Drozt, MF Korus, JE Mathis, DG Newberg - US Patent 9,392,576, 2016 - Google Patents
An infrastructure device in a 3GPP compliant system performs a method transporting a
plurality of media streams over a shared MBMS bearer. The 3GPP compliant system …

Communication system

C Jactat, S Hayashi, J Lewis - US Patent 11,096,148, 2021 - Google Patents
A communication system is described in which an MBMS service is provided by unicast or
broadcast/multicast communication in dependence on whether the number of mobile …

Methods for assigning a plethora of group communications among a limited number of pre-established MBMS bearers in a communication system

MF Korus, PM Drozt, DG Newberg - US Patent 9,042,291, 2015 - Google Patents
An infrastructure device in a 3GPP compliant system per forms a method to allocate MBMS
bearers. The 3GPP com pliant system includes a RAN partitioned into a plurality MBMS …

Service-less video multicast in 5G: Enablers and challenges

K Zahoor, K Bilal, A Erbad, A Mohamed - IEEE Network, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The massive upsurge in production and demand of crowdsourced live streaming
necessitates feasible and cost effective solutions in future cellular networks. Video multicast …