FIELD: radio engineering, communication.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to communication and particularly to techniques for sending multicast/broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) information. The technical result is achieved due to that a network may support regular subframes used to send unicast information and MBSFN subframes used to send broadcast information and having lower overhead than the regular subframes. The first base station may cause high interference to stations (e.g., user equipment (UE)) served by the second base station. The first base station may reserve a subframe for the second base station, send the system information conveying the reserved subframe as an MBSFN subframe to its stations, and transmit in the first part of the reserved subframe in accordance with the MBSFN subframe format. The second base station may skip the first part and may send unicast information to its stations in the remaining part of the reserved subframe. The MBSFN subframes may be used to support additional base station capabilities.
EFFECT: reduced overhead and high network throughput.
9 cl, 19 dwg
