APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MULTI-ANTENNA CHANNEL QUALITY DATA ACQUISITION USING MULTICAST SYMBOL IN BROADCAST/MULTICAST SERVICE NETWORK

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus which provide a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) frame with unicast information.

SOLUTION: The apparatus transmits a first subframe as a first Multimedia Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe. The first subframe includes a unicast symbol in a first symbol position. The first subframe further includes multicast symbols. The apparatus transmits a second subframe as a second MBSFN subframe, instead of transmitting the first subframe. The second subframe is located in a start part of the second subframe and includes a first part including one or more unicast control symbols. The second subframe further includes at least a second unicast antenna reference symbol to be transmitted instead of the multicast symbols.

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