A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC BEARER ALLOCATION

摘要

A system and method of allocating bearers in a telecommunications system. The system and method enable the integration of multicast bearers with unicast bearers. In the method of allocating bearers, a unit equipment (UE) requests a service to a telecommunications system. Next, a type of bearer associated with the requested service is determined. The type of bearer may be either be a multicast or a unicast bearer. The determined type of bearer is then allocated for the requested service by the UE.