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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2014
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Weigang Li, Ottawa, CA;
Jingdi Xu, Ottawa, CA;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A base station () dynamically allocates users among broadcast carriers and dynamically allocates carrier resources between broadcast and unicast service, based on the number of users actually receiving broadcast service on a carrier. The base station () periodically measures () the number of broadcast-only users registered to a carrier. As the number of such users decreases, the remaining idle broadcast-only are transferred () to other carriers transmitting the same broadcast content, and carrier resources are reallocated () to unicast service. When the carrier is moderately loaded, it may accept broadcast users transferred from other, lightly-loaded carriers, which are attempting to shed users to reallocate resources to unicast service. As the carrier becomes more heavily loaded, it will refuse () to accept transferred broadcast users. When the carrier's load reaches an upper threshold, the base station () allocates () resources of a new carrier to broadcast service, and moves users to the new carrier.