Invention Application
- Patent Title: INTER-CELL MESSAGING USING MBSFN SUBFRAME
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Application No.: US15824035Application Date: 2017-11-28
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Publication No.: US20180084529A1Publication Date: 2018-03-22
- Inventor: Amit KALHAN , Henry CHANG , Douglas DUNN , David COMSTOCK
- Applicant: Kyocera Corporation
- Main IPC: H04W72/00
- IPC: H04W72/00 ; H04L12/18

Abstract:
A cellular communication system and method for delivering information, e.g., data and/or control-signaling, to a user equipment (UE) from a neighboring node are disclosed. The cellular communication system includes a first node configured to transmit information in one or more Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframes over a radio frequency (RF) link between the first node and the UE, while the UE is being served by a second node. The first node can use a network-defined, dedicated portion of the MBSFN subframe for this purpose. Instead of only allowing the second node to send data/signaling messages to the UE, the disclosed techniques allow neighboring nodes to also deliver information to the UE. In particular, the neighboring nodes can transmit data and/or control-signaling to the UE using MBSFN subframes in order to minimize signaling overhead and signaling delay.
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