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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2013
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Yigal Bejerano, Springfield, NJ (US);
Katherine H Guo, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Suresh Goyal, Warren, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Various methods and devices are provided to address the need for improved multicast operation. In one method, a feedback mobile device receives (), from a multicast sender, a multicast transmission for a plurality of mobile devices, the plurality of mobile devices further including a group of non-feedback mobile devices. The feedback mobile device transmits () an indication of feedback mobile channel quality observed by the feedback mobile device to the multicast sender and to the group of non-feedback mobile devices. The feedback mobile device receives () from at least one non-feedback mobile device, an indication of non-feedback mobile channel quality at the at least one non-feedback mobile device and transmits () an indication of the non-feedback mobile channel quality to the multicast sender and to the group of non-feedback mobile devices.