APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NEIGHBOR ASSISTED COMBINING FOR MULTICAST SERVICES

摘要

A method and apparatus for neighbor assisted combining for localized multicast services. User equipment (120) is sent a signal (730) indicating the relationship between cells with respect to serving cells (112) transmitting a common multicast transmission. At least a portion of the common multicast transmission is transmitted (740) on the same resource on each serving cell. A pilot signal is transmitted (750) on each serving cell, the pilot signal related to the at least a portion of the common multicast transmission on each serving cell. An interfering signal and a related pilot are transmitted (760) on at least one different cell (114) from the serving cells.