EMBMS service continuity during UE mobility

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9603066-B2
Application number	US-201213652323-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 15, 2012
Priority date	Jun 18, 2012
Publication date	Mar 21, 2017
Grant date	Mar 21, 2017

Abstract

A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives an MBMS service from a first cell based on first cell MBSFN service configuration information of the first cell. The apparatus switches from being served by the first cell to a second cell. The apparatus attempts to receive the MBMS service from the second cell by utilizing the first cell MBSFN service configuration information prior to obtaining second cell MBSFN service configuration information of the second cell.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication of a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) service from a first cell based on first cell Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) service configuration information of the first cell;
determining a neighbor cell configuration;
determining, that the neighbor cell configuration indicates that at least one neighbor cell of a plurality of neighbor cells is within a same MBSFN area as the first cell;
switching from being served by the first cell to a second cell based on determining that at least one neighbor cell is within the MBSFN area as the first cell, wherein the second cell is a neighbor cell of the first cell;
receiving, by the UE, the MBMS service from the second cell based on the first cell MBSFN service configuration information used for receiving the MBMS service from the first cell prior to second cell MBSFN service configuration information being obtained, the first cell MBSFN service configuration information being utilized for the second cell when neighbor cell configuration information indicates that at least one neighbor cell of the plurality of neighbor cells has MBSFN subframe allocations;
obtaining the second cell MBSFN service configuration information of the second cell from the second cell; and
receiving the MBMS service from the second cell based on the obtained second cell MBSFN service configuration information.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second cell MBSFN service configuration information comprises a system information block (SIB) 13 (SIB13) from the second cell.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the second cell MBSFN service configuration information further comprises a SIB 2 (SIB2) from the second cell.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first cell MBSFN service configuration information comprises a SIB2 from the first cell including an MBSFN subframe allocation of the first cell, a SIB13 indicating MBSFN subframes on which a multicast control channel (MCCH) can be received on the first cell, and MCCH information providing MBSFN area configuration information of the first cell, and the second cell MBSFN service configuration information comprises the SIB2 from the second cell including an MBSFN subframe allocation of the second cell, the SIB13 indicating MBSFN subframes on which an MCCH can be received on the second cell, and MCCH information providing MBSFN area configuration information of the second cell.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the neighbor cell configuration information is obtained in at least one of an information element (IE) within a system information block (SIB) 3 for intra-frequency neighbor cell configuration information or in an IE within a SIB 5 for inter-frequency neighbor cell configuration information while in an idle mode, or in an IE within a measurement object for both intra-frequency neighbor cell configuration information and inter-frequency neighbor cell configuration information when in a connected mode.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first cell MBSFN service configuration information is utilized for the second cell when the neighbor cell configuration information indicates that neighbor cells have any one of a different MBSFN subframe allocation than the first cell, a different uplink/downlink subframe configuration for time division duplexing (TDD) than the first cell, a subset of the MBSFN subframe allocation of the first cell, or an identical MBSFN subframe allocation as the first cell.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
attempting to receive the MBMS service from the second cell by utilizing the first cell MBSFN service configuration information after the switching.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising discarding packets received through the attempt to receive the MBMS service based on information included in a header of the packets.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising attempting to receive both a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and the MBMS service on MBSFN subframes according to the first cell MBSFN service configuration information after the switching and prior to obtaining the second cell MBSFN service configuration information.

10. An apparatus for wireless communication, the apparatus being a user equipment (UE) comprising:
means for receiving a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) service from a first cell based on first cell Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) service configuration information of the first cell;
means for determining a neighbor cell configuration;
means for determining, that the neighbor cell configuration indicates that at least one neighbor cell of a plurality of neighbor cells is within a same MBSFN area as the first cell;
means for switching from being served by the first cell to a second cell based on determining that at least one neighbor cell is within the MBSFN area as the first cell, wherein the second cell is a neighbor cell of the first cell;
means for receiving, by the UE, the MBMS service from the second cell based on the first cell MBSFN service configuration information used for receiving the MBMS service from the first cell prior to second cell MBSFN service configuration information being obtained, the first cell MBSFN service configuration information being utilized for the second cell when neighbor cell configuration information indicates that at least one neighbor cell of the plurality of neighbor cells neighbor cells has MBSFN subframe allocations;
means for obtaining the second cell MBSFN service configuration information of the second cell from the second cell; and
means for receiving the MBMS service from the second cell based on the obtained second cell MBSFN service configuration information.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the second cell MBSFN service configuration information comprises a system information block (SIB) 13 (SIB13) from the second cell.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the second cell MBSFN service configuration information further comprises a SIB 2 (SIB2) from the second cell.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the first cell MBSFN service configuration information comprises a SIB2 from the first cell including an MBSFN subframe allocation of the first cell, a SIB13 indicating MBSFN subframes on which a multicast control channel (MCCH) can be received on the first cell, and MCCH information providing MBSFN area configuration information of the first cell, and the second cell MBSFN service configuration information comprises the SIB2 from the second cell including an MBSFN subframe allocation of the second cell, the SIB13 indicating MBSFN subframes on which an MCCH can be received on the second cell, and MCCH information providing MBSFN area configuration information of the second cell.

14. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the neighbor cell configuration information is obtained in at least one of an information element (IE) within a system information block (SIB) 3 for intra-frequency neighbor cell configuration information or in an IE within a SIB 5 for inter-frequency neighbor cell configuration information while in an idle mode, in an IE within a measurement object for both intra-frequency neighbor cell configuration information and inter-frequency neighbor cell configuration information when in a connected mode.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the first cell MBSFN service configuration information is utilized for the second cell when the neighbor cell configuration information indicates that neighbor cells have any one of a different MBSFN s

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Mandil Amit
• Amerga Daniel

Classifications

• H04W72/30

  Resource management for broadcast services · CPC title

• H04W76/002

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W72/005

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W36/0072 Primary

  of resource information of target access point · CPC title

• H04W48/12

  using downlink control channel · CPC title