PHYSICAL LAYER COUNTING AND BEARER TYPE SELECTION

摘要

A systems, methods, and/or devices for physical layer counting of user equipments (UEs) interested in one or more multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) services, and selecting a bearer based on the physical layer counting. In some examples, a network entity (e.g., a base station), may transmit a counting request to a plurality of UEs on a broadcast channel. The counting request may identify the one or more MBMS services offered by the network. Accordingly, UEs interested in the MBMS service may respond to the counting request over a shared channel or a resource block. Upon receiving the counting response, the base station may estimate the number of interested UEs by measuring the received power-related characteristic of a channel over which the at least one counting response is received