MEASUREMENT OF CELL-SPECIFIC REFERENCE SYMBOLS IN PRESENCE OF MBMS SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK TRANSMISSIONS Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC H04L27/26 

FIELD: : information technology.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to communication systems. A network unit of an own cell operates in a radio communication system utilising a radio interface that includes a radio frame made up of a number of sub-frames. The own cell serves one or more user equipments. Operation includes obtaining information about a scheduling of MBSFN data transmissions in one or more neighbouring cells. The information thereby obtained is used to generate an information signal which, for a given sub-frame, enables the one or more user equipments to determine whether neighbouring cell measurements can be performed using a unicast group of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDM) symbols.

EFFECT: information signal is transmitted to the one or more user equipments, which can then use the information to determine how to locate cell-specific reference symbols when carrying out measurements of neighbouring cells.

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