WO2017124802A1

WO2017124802A1 - Method and device for processing transmission of multimedia broadcast and multicast service

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Publication number: WO2017124802A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/103567
Authority: WO
Inventors: 吴昱民; 马子江
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2016-01-20
Filing date: 2016-10-27
Publication date: 2017-07-27
Also published as: CN106993275A

Abstract

Provided in an embodiment of the invention are a method and device for processing transmission of a multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS). The method comprises: acquiring MBMS interest information of a user equipment (UE), wherein the MBMS interest information comprises at least one of the following: service information used to indicate an MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or currently receiving, information about capability of the UE to support a transmission method for transmitting the MBMS, and location information of the UE; and determining, according to the MBMS interest information, the transmission method for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined region, and executing a procedure for processing transmission of the MBMS.

Description

Transmission processing method and device for multimedia broadcast multicast service

Technical field

The embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for transmitting a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS).

Background technique

The Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS) in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) is also called the evolved MBMS (eMBMS). The main function is in LTE. Broadcast and multicast services are implemented in the system. Currently, MBMS is mainly implemented by a hybrid cell, that is, a cell that transmits an MBMS service also transmits a unicast service. The multiple MBMS cells can form a Multimedia Broadcast multicast service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) area, broadcast the same MBMS in the same MBSFN, and the MBMS is physical multicast in the air interface. A Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH) is transmitted in an MBSFN subframe. Hereinafter, a user equipment (User Equipment, abbreviated as UE) capable of receiving an MBMS in an MBSFN subframe through a PMCH is a UE having an MBMS receiving capability.

The data of the MBMS is sent from the MBMS gateway (Gateway, abbreviated as GW) to the evolved base station eNB through the user plane interface M1 interface. MBMS control plane signaling is through the M3 interface between the Mobility Management Entity (MME) and the Multi-cell/Multicast Coordination Entity (MCE) (E-UTRAN and The interface between the EPCs and the M2 interface between the MCE and the eNB (E-UTRAN internal control plane interface) is sent. For details, refer to FIG. 1, which is related to the MME, the MCE, the eNB, and the MBMS GW in the related art. Interface diagram.

A UE with carrier aggregation (Carrier Aggregation, CA for short) can receive MBMS on a secondary cell (SCell), and needs to receive corresponding system information and system information change notification on the SCell receiving the MBMS. . For a UE with carrier aggregation capability, the UE can perform unicast service transmission and reception at multiple frequency points at the same time. So the UE also needs to be able to The frequency of receiving the MBMS does not need to be the serving frequency of the UE. For the idle state (IDLE) UE, the serving frequency is the frequency of the UE, and for the connected state. For the UE, the service frequency is the working frequency of the network configured for the UE. When the UE finds that the MBMS frequency point of interest is not its service frequency, the UE needs to be able to configure the non-serving frequency point to receive the MBMS. For the UE, the self-configuring frequency point (or self-configuring SCell) works in the same manner as other service frequency points, and the UE needs to receive system information and system information changes, and related MBMS control information.

In the related art, the network side cannot know whether the UE supports Single Cell Point to Multipoint (SC-PTM) through the existing MBMS counting mechanism, and cannot accurately know the geographical location of the UE. The location, so that it is impossible to determine whether the SC-PTM can be used to transmit data in the target cell after suspending the MBSFN transmission. From this, it can be seen that the transmission method of the MBMS cannot be determined in the related art.

In view of the problem that the transmission method of the MBMS cannot be determined in the related art, an effective solution has not been proposed yet.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the present invention provides a method and an apparatus for processing an MBMS, so as to solve at least the problem that the transmission mode of the MBMS cannot be determined in the related art.

According to an aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a method for transmitting a MBMS is provided, including:

Obtaining MBMS interest information of the UE, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in the UE and/or being received, and the UE supports for transmitting the MBMS The capability information of the transmission mode and the location information of the UE; determining, according to the MBMS interest information, a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area and performing transmission processing of the MBMS.

Optionally, the acquiring the MBMS interest information of the UE includes: sending a first request message to the UE; and acquiring the MBMS interest information that is sent by the UE according to the first request message.

Optionally, the first request message includes first request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE.

Optionally, sending the first request message to the UE includes: receiving a second request message from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE; and sending a first request message to the UE according to the second request message.

Optionally, the second request message includes second request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE.

Optionally, the second request message is a request message that is determined by the MCE after receiving a third request message sent from the operation management and maintenance OAM.

Optionally, the third request message includes third request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE.

Optionally, sending the first request message to the UE according to the second request message includes: sending, according to the second request message, the first request message to the UE by using an MBMS control channel, where The MBMS control channel includes a single cell multicast control channel SC-MCCH and/or MCCH.

Optionally, the acquiring the MBMS interest information that is sent by the UE according to the first request message includes: acquiring the MBMS interest information that is sent by the UE in a RRC connection state according to the first request message. The UE in the RRC connected state of the radio resource control includes the UE that is always in the RRC connected state, and/or the UE that enters the RRC connected state by the RRC idle state.

Optionally, determining, according to the MBMS interest information, a sending manner for sending the MBMS in a predetermined area and performing the sending process of the MBMS includes:

Determining at least one of the following interest information according to the MBMS interest information: a number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, and a multimedia broadcast in a UE that is interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area The number of UEs in the MBSFN transmission mode of the broadcast service single frequency network, and the number of UEs supporting the single cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area;

Send the determined interest information to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or run management and maintenance OAM, wherein the determined interest information is used by the MCE or the OAM to determine a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing the sending of the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS deal with.

Transmitting the MBMS interest information to the mobility management entity MME, where the MBMS interest information is used by the MME to determine at least one of the following interest information, and the determined interest information is sent to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or Running management and maintenance OAM, the determined interest information is used by the MCE or OAM to determine a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS Send processing:

The number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, and the number of UEs supporting the MBMSN transmission mode of the multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network in the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, The number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a method for transmitting a MBMS is provided, including:

Receiving the determined interest information from the evolved base station eNB or the mobility management entity MME, wherein the determined interest information is determined by the eNB or the MME according to the acquired MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE, the MBMS The interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in and/or being received by the UE, capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and a location of the UE Information, the determined interest information includes at least one of: a number of UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area, and a multimedia broadcast multicast service supported in a UE that is interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area The number of UEs in the single-frequency network MBSFN transmission mode, and the number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area;

And determining, according to the determined interest information, a sending manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing the sending process of the MBMS by using the determined sending manner of the MBMS.

Optionally, before receiving the determined interest information from the eNB or the MME, the method further includes: sending a second request message to the eNB, where the second request message is used to request The eNB sends a first request message to the UE, where the first request message is used to request the UE to feed back the MBMS interest information.

Optionally, the first request message includes first request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE, and the second request message includes the MBMS interest information for requesting statistics of the UE. Second request information.

Optionally, before the sending the second request message to the eNB, the method further includes: receiving, by the operation management and maintenance OAM, a third request message for requesting to send the second request message.

Optionally, determining, according to the determined interest information, a sending manner for sending the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing the sending process of the MBMS by using the determined sending manner of the MBMS, includes:

And transmitting the determined interest information to the operation management and maintenance OAM, wherein the determined interest information is used by the OAM to determine a sending manner for sending the MBMS in the predetermined area, and using the determined location The transmission method of the MBMS is performed by the transmission method of the MBMS.

Receiving the determined interest information from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE, wherein the determined interest information is sent by the evolved eNB or the mobility management entity MME after determining according to the acquired MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE For the MCE, the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in and/or being received by the UE, and capability information supported by the UE to send a transmission manner of the MBMS. And the location information of the UE; the determined interest information includes at least one of: a number of UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area, and a UE interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area The number of UEs supporting the multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network MBSFN transmission mode, in the The number of UEs supporting a single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area;

Optionally, before receiving the determined interest information from the MCE, the method further includes:

Sending a third request message to the MCE, where the third request message is used to request the MCE to send a second request message to the eNB, where the second request message is used to request the eNB to send the UE Sending a first request message, where the first request message is used to request the UE to feed back the MBMS interest information.

Optionally, the first request message includes first request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE, and the second request message includes the MBMS interest information for requesting statistics of the UE. Second request information, the third request message includes third request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE.

Receiving MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE from the evolved base station eNB, where the MBMS interest information comprises at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in the UE and/or being received, the UE Supporting capability information for transmitting a transmission mode of the MBMS and location information of the UE;

Determining at least one of the following interest information according to the MBMS interest information, and transmitting the determined interest information to a multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or running management and maintenance OAM, wherein the determined interest information is used for the MCE or The OAM determines a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performs transmission processing of the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS:

Supporting a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network MBSFN in the predetermined area, the number of UEs interested in the MBMS, and the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area The number of UEs in the transmit mode, the number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined region.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a method for processing a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS is provided, including:

Receiving a first request message from the evolved base station eNB; and feeding back the MBMS interest information to the eNB according to the first request message, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: used to indicate that the UE is interested and/or Traffic information of the MBMS being received, capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the transmission mode of the MBMS, and location information of the UE, the MBMS interest information being used by the eNB to determine to transmit the MBMS in a predetermined area The transmission method of the MBMS is performed.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a transmission processing apparatus for an MBMS is provided, including:

And an acquiring module, configured to acquire MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in the UE and/or being received, the UE supports Capability information for transmitting the transmission mode of the MBMS and location information of the UE;

The first processing module is configured to determine, according to the MBMS interest information, a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area and perform transmission processing of the MBMS.

a first receiving module, configured to receive the determined interest information from the evolved base station eNB or the mobility management entity MME, where the determined interest information is an MBMS interest of the user equipment UE obtained by the eNB or the MME Determining, the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in and/or being received by the UE, and an ability of the UE to support a sending manner of the MBMS. Information and location information of the UE;

The determined interest information includes at least one of: a number of UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area, and a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency supported in a UE that is interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area. The number of UEs in the network MBSFN transmission mode, and the number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area;

The second processing module is configured to determine, according to the determined interest information, a sending manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and perform the sending process of the MBMS by using the determined sending manner of the MBMS.

a second receiving module, configured to receive the determined interest information from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE, wherein the determined interest information is an MBMS interest of the evolved eNB or the mobility management entity MME according to the acquired user equipment UE After the information is determined and sent to the MCE, the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in the UE and/or being received, and the UE supports the sending Capability information of the transmission mode of the MBMS and location information of the UE;

The third processing module is configured to determine, according to the determined interest information, a sending manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and perform the sending process of the MBMS by using the determined sending manner of the MBMS.

a third receiving module, configured to receive MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE from the evolved base station eNB, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: The service information of the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, the capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the location information of the UE;

The sending module is configured to determine at least one of the following interest information according to the MBMS interest information, and send the determined interest information to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or the operation management and maintenance OAM, where the determined interest information is used by Determining, in the predetermined area, a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing a transmission process of the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS: in the predetermined area The number of UEs interested in the MBMS, the number of UEs supporting the MBMSN transmission mode of the multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network in the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, in the predetermined area The number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode in the UEs of interest to the MBMS.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a transmission processing apparatus for an MBMS is provided, including: a fourth receiving module, configured to receive a first request message from an evolved base station eNB; and a feedback module configured to be according to the A request message feeds back MBMS interest information to the eNB, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested and/or being received by the UE, and UE-supported for transmitting the The capability information of the transmission mode of the MBMS and the location information of the UE, the MBMS interest information is used by the eNB to determine a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area and perform transmission processing of the MBMS.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE is obtained, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: service information for indicating the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, the Capability information for transmitting a transmission mode of the MBMS and location information of the UE supported by the UE; determining, according to the MBMS interest information, a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area and performing transmission of the MBMS deal with. The embodiments of the present invention can solve the problem that the transmission mode of the MBMS cannot be determined in the related art, and can determine the transmission mode of the MBMS and improve the efficiency of resource utilization.

BRIEF abstract

The drawings described herein are provided to provide a further understanding of the present application and constitute a part of this application. The illustrative embodiments of the present application and the description thereof are used to explain the present application and do not constitute a Improperly qualified. In the drawing:

1 is a schematic diagram of an interface between an MME, an MCE, an eNB, and an MBMS GW in the related art;

2 is a flow chart of transmitting an MBMS by an MCE entity in the related art;

3 is a flowchart of a first MBMS transmission processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of a second MBMS transmission processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a third MBMS transmission processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

6 is a flowchart of a fourth MBMS transmission processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

7 is a flowchart of a fifth MBMS transmission processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a flow chart showing the transmission of an MBMS according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention; FIG.

9 is a flow chart showing the transmission of an MBMS according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of sending an MBMS according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention; FIG.

11 is a flow chart showing the transmission of an MBMS according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention;

Figure 12 is a flow chart showing the transmission of an MBMS according to Embodiment 5 of the present invention;

Figure 13 is a flow chart showing the transmission of an MBMS according to Embodiment 6 of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing the structure of a first MBMS transmission processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

15 is a block diagram showing the structure of a second MBMS transmission processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

16 is a block diagram showing the structure of a third MBMS transmission processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 17 is a structural block diagram of a fourth MBMS transmission processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 18 is a block diagram showing the structure of a fifth MBMS transmission processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Embodiments of the invention

The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in conjunction with the embodiments. It should be noted that the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

It should be noted that the terms "first", "second" and the like in the specification and claims of the embodiments of the present invention and the above drawings are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a specific order or Prioritization.

First, a brief introduction to related technologies:

The eMBMS related control information described above includes:

(1) System information:

The system information block (SIB) 13 broadcasts the basic configuration information of each MBSFN to which the current cell belongs, including the logical control channel multicast control channel (Multicast Control Channel) corresponding to each MBSFN. MCCH) configuration, and configuration of the MCCH change notification.

SIB15 broadcasts information related to MBMS continuity, and provides Service Area Identity (SAI) information corresponding to each MBMS frequency point (including the current cell frequency point and the adjacent frequency point). It is used to assist the RRC_IDLE and RRC_CONNECTED UEs to find the MBMS frequency point of interest, thereby ensuring continuous reception of the MBMS during the mobile process. For RRC_IDLE, the MBMS frequency point of interest of the SIB 15 may be set to a high priority frequency point in order to receive the MBMS.

(2) Logical channel MCCH:

The multicast control channel is a point-to-multipoint downlink channel used by the network to transmit MBMS-related control information and counting information for MBMS interest to the UE. One MCCH may correspond to one or Multiple Multicast Traffic Channels (MTCHs for short); this channel can only be used by UEs that can receive MBMS. The base station will notify the UE of the modification period and the repetition period of the MCCH through the system broadcast. The modification period is generally X times the repetition period. In a modification period, the MCCH information sent in all repetition periods is the same, which is to ensure the reliability of the MCCH. receive. At the same time, the change of the information in the MCCH is a bit bit that is scrambled by the Multicast-Radio Network Temporary Identity (M-RNTI) in the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). Instructed. After obtaining the MCCH change notification, the UE needs to re-read the MCCH.

(3) MAC scheduling control of eMBMS, MCH Scheduling Information (MSI) Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (referred to as CE):

The MSI is used as the control signaling of the MAC layer and is transmitted in the first subframe of each MCH Scheduling Period (MSP) to indicate the location of each MTCH and the current multicast channel ( A subframe that is not used in the Multicast Channel (referred to as MCH).

(4) Logical channel MTCH:

The multicast traffic channel is a point-to-multipoint downlink channel used by the network to transmit MBMS data to the UE; the channel can only be used by UEs capable of receiving MBMS. The configuration information of the MTCH is indicated by its corresponding MCCH. The network uses the MCCH to indicate the MTCH to the UE, thereby achieving the purpose of enabling the UE to receive the MBMS carried on the MTCH.

(5) Transport Channel MCH and Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH):

Both the MCCH and the MTCH are mapped to the MCH for transmission, and the MCH is remapped to the PMCH for transmission. Each MCH is transmitted in one MCH scheduling period, and the scheduling period of the MCH is the MSP.

The following describes the MBMS counting technology:

The MCE entity can determine whether to send the MBMS through the MBSFN in the air interface by counting the UE interest of the air interface. The specific process is shown in FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the MCE entity control MBMS sending in the related art. The process includes the following steps (S202-S210 respectively correspond to steps 1-5 in FIG. 2):

Step S202: The MCE initiates service interest request statistics information to the eNB.

Step S204: The eNB feeds back to the MCE to receive the confirmation information of the request.

Step S206: The eNB sends interest statistics information to the UE.

Step S208: The RRC connected state UE reports the service information of interest to the eNB.

Step S210: The eNB counts the number of UEs that are interested in the service, and reports the result to the MCE.

The following is a brief introduction to SC-PTM technology:

When MBMS is transmitted in a single cell, in order to improve the efficiency of resource utilization, the MBMS is dynamically scheduled in a physical downlink shared channel of unicast communication (Physical Downlink). The Shared Channel, referred to as PDSCH), is sent. The SC-PTM transmission still needs a corresponding control channel (such as Single Cell MCCH (SC-MCCH)) and a data channel (such as Single Cell MTCH, referred to as Single Cell MTCH, for short). For SC-MTCH)). Hereinafter, a UE that can receive an MBMS in a unicast subframe through a PDSCH is a UE that has SC-PTM reception capability.

In this embodiment, a method for processing a MBMS is provided. FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for processing a first MBMS according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the process includes the following steps:

Step S302: Obtain MBMS interest information of a user equipment (UE), where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information for indicating MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, and UE supported for sending MBMS Capability information of the transmission mode and location information of the UE;

Step S304, determining, according to the MBMS interest information, a transmission method for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area, and executing the MBMS transmission processing flow.

The foregoing operation may be performed by an evolved base station eNB.

Through the above steps, the information about the interest of the MBMS of the UE can be effectively counted, and the manner of sending the MBMS in the predetermined area can be determined according to the MBMS interest information of the UE. The sending manner of the MBMS may include sending through the MBSFN and sending through the SC-PTM. By unicast transmission, etc., the problem of the inability to determine the transmission mode of the MBMS in the related art is solved, and the effect of determining the transmission mode of the MBMS and improving the resource utilization efficiency is achieved.

The statistical request for the MBMS interest information of the UE may be initiated by the eNB. In an optional embodiment, in the foregoing step S302, acquiring the MBMS interest information of the UE may include: sending a first request message to the UE; and acquiring MBMS interest information fed back by the UE according to the first request message. The first request information may be sent by using at least one of the following logical channel MBMS control channels: SC-MCCH; MCCH; other dedicated logical channels. The content of the first request information may include: MBMS service information (MBMS service information generally refers to a TMGI identifier, and may also be: a service identifier Service ID, a session identifier Session ID, and an MBMS traffic channel identifier (MBTS traffic channel identity, referred to as MTCH). ID), MBMS service area identity (SAI); may also include one or more of the following information: Geographical location information; UE capability request information of MBMS; UE capability request information of SC-PTM; update time of MCCH; update time of SC-MCCH; other information. Optionally, the foregoing geographical location information includes one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; status location area coordinate information; and other geographical location information. Optionally, after receiving the foregoing first request message, the UE may send feedback information (corresponding to the foregoing MBMS interest information) to the eNB, where the content of the feedback information includes one or more of the following information: MBMS service information being received; SC-PTM reception capability of the UE; MBMS reception capability of the UE; geographical location information of the UE; other information. Optionally, the geographic location information of the UE includes one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; status location area coordinate information; and other geographic location information.

The foregoing first request message may include first request information for requesting statistics on the MBMS interest information of the UE; or the first request message may also use the MBMS service interest statistics request information in the prior art. That is, the above-mentioned first request message does not have the above-mentioned newly added information unit (ie, the above-mentioned first request information) (eg, the identifier of the SC-PTM capability requesting the UE; the identifier of the cell information in which the UE is requested), The information unit of the "MBMS SERVICE COUNTING REQUEST" of the existing 3GPP Release 12 (Release 12) (eg, message type Message Type, MCCH update time MCCH Update Time, TMGI list TMGI list, etc.) may be included.

The statistical request for the MBMS interest information of the UE may be initiated by the MCE. In an optional embodiment, sending the first request message to the UE includes: receiving a second request message from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE; and sending the first request message to the UE according to the second request message.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the MCE may send request information for collecting the MBMS interest of the user to the eNB, where the MBMS interest information may refer to: receiving or interested to receive for a certain MBMS. The statistical user's MBMS interest refers to: counting the number of UEs that are receiving or interested in receiving the service. The second request message may be sent by using the MCCH, and the content of the second request message may include: the foregoing MBMS service information; the second request message may further include one or more of the following information: geographic location information; UE capability request information of MBMS; UE capability request information of SC-PTM; MCCH Update time; SC-MCCH update time; other information.

Optionally, the foregoing geographical location information may include one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; status location area coordinate information; and other geographical location information. Optionally, after receiving the foregoing second request message, the eNB may feed back to the MCE to acknowledge receiving the request information, including feedback of successful or unsuccessful reception of the request information.

In an optional embodiment, the foregoing second request message may include second request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE. Similar to the first request message, the second request message may not include the second request information, but adopt the existing MBMS service interest statistics request information.

The statistical request for the MBMS interest information of the UE may also be initiated by the OAM. In an optional embodiment, the foregoing second request message is a request message that is determined by the MCE after receiving the third request message sent from the operation management and maintenance OAM.

In an optional embodiment, the third request message includes third request information for requesting statistics of MBMS interest information of the UE. Optionally, the OAM may send, to the eNB, third request information that collects user MBMS interest, where the MBMS interest information refers to: receiving or interested to receive for a certain MBMS, and counting user MBMS interest. Means: Count the number of UEs that are receiving or interested in receiving the service. The request information may be sent through the MCCH, and the content of the request information may include: the foregoing MBMS service information; and may further include one or more of the following information: geographic location information; UE capability request information of the MBMS; UE capability of the SC-PTM Request information; update time of MCCH; update time of SC-MCCH; other information. Optionally, the geographic location information includes one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; status location area coordinate information; and other geographic location information. Optionally, similar to the foregoing first request message, the third request message may not include the foregoing third request information, but adopt existing MBMS service interest statistics request information.

In an optional embodiment, sending the first request message to the UE according to the foregoing second request message includes: sending, according to the second request message, a first request message to the UE by using an MBMS control channel, where the MBMS control channel includes a single cell Multicast control channel SC-MCCH and/or MCCH.

In an optional embodiment, acquiring the MBMS interest information that is sent by the UE according to the first request message includes: acquiring, by the UE in the RRC connection state of the radio resource control, according to the foregoing first request. The MBMS interest information fed back by the message, wherein the UE in the RRC connected state of the radio resource control includes the UE that has been in the RRC connected state, and/or the UE that enters the RRC connected state by the RRC idle state. In this embodiment, the UE in the RRC idle state may also not send feedback information to the eNB, that is, only the UE in the RRC connected state feeds back information to the eNB.

In an optional embodiment, determining, according to the MBMS interest information, the sending manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area and performing the sending process of the MBMS includes: determining, according to the MBMS interest information, at least one of the following interest information: at the foregoing predetermined The number of UEs interested in MBMS in the area, the number of UEs supporting the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) transmission mode in the UEs interested in the MBMS in the above-mentioned predetermined area, and the sense of MBMS in the above predetermined area The number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode in the UEs of interest; transmitting the determined interest information to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or running management and maintenance OAM, wherein the above determined interest information is used The MCE or OAM determines the transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performs the transmission process of the MBMS using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS.

Optionally, when the eNB sends the determined interest information to the OAM, the eNB may first send the information to the MCE, and then forward the data to the OAM through the MCE. The foregoing determined interest information may further include geographic location information of the UE, where the geographic location information may include one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; status location area coordinate information; and other geographic location information. The foregoing number of UEs supporting different transmission modes may include at least one of the following: the number of UEs in the RRC connected state; and the number of UEs in the RRC idle state (if the RRC idle state UE also needs to enter the RRC connection and then feedback) The total number of UEs.

In an optional embodiment, determining, according to the foregoing MBMS interest information, a sending manner for transmitting the foregoing MBMS in a predetermined area and performing a sending process of the MBMS includes: sending the MBMS interest information to the mobility management entity MME, where The MBMS interest information is used by the MME to determine at least one of the following interest information, and send the determined interest information to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or the operation management and maintenance OAM, where the determined interest information is used for MCE or OAM determination. a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing transmission processing of the MBMS by using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS: the number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, and the UE interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area Support multimedia broadcasts The number of UEs that broadcast a single-frequency network MBSFN transmission mode, and the number of UEs that support a single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in MBMS in the above-mentioned predetermined area.

The foregoing determined interest information may further include geographic location information of the UE, where the geographic location information may include one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; status location area coordinate information; and other geographic location information. The foregoing number of UEs supporting different transmission modes may include at least one of the following: the number of UEs in the RRC connected state; and the number of UEs in the RRC idle state (if the RRC idle state UE also needs to enter the RRC connection and then feedback) The total number of UEs.

In this embodiment, a method for processing a MBMS is further provided. FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method for processing a second MBMS according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the process includes the following steps:

Step S402, receiving the determined interest information from the evolved base station eNB or the mobility management entity MME, where the determined interest information is determined by the eNB or the MME according to the acquired MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE, where the MBMS interest information includes At least one of the following: the service information for indicating the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, the capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the location information of the UE, where the determined interest information includes at least the following a: the number of UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area, the number of UEs supporting a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network MBSFN transmission mode among UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area, in a predetermined area The number of UEs supporting single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode in UEs of interest to MBMS;

Step S404, determining a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area according to the determined interest information, and performing the MBMS transmission process by using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS.

Among them, the above operation may be MAC.

Through the above steps, the information about the interest of the MBMS of the UE can be effectively counted, and the manner of sending the MBMS in the predetermined area can be determined according to the MBMS interest information of the UE. The sending manner of the MBMS may include sending through the MBSFN and sending through the SC-PTM. The problem of the inability to determine the transmission mode of the MBMS service in the related art is solved by the unicast transmission, and the effect of determining the transmission mode of the MBMS service and improving the resource utilization efficiency is achieved.

The statistical request for the MBMS interest information of the UE may be initiated by the MCE. In an optional embodiment, before receiving the determined interest information from the eNB or the MME, the method further includes: sending a second request message to the eNB, where the second request message is used to request the eNB to send the information to the UE. The first request message is used to request the UE to feed back the MBMS interest information.

In an optional embodiment, the foregoing first request message includes first request information for requesting statistics of MBMS interest information of the UE, and the second request message includes a second request for requesting statistics of MBMS interest information of the UE. Request information. Optionally, the first request message may not include the foregoing first request information, but use the MBMS service interest statistics request information in the prior art. The foregoing second request message may also include the foregoing second request information, but adopts the MBMS service interest statistics request information in the prior art.

The statistical request for the MBMS interest information of the UE may be initiated by the OAM. In an optional embodiment, before sending the foregoing second request message to the eNB, the method further includes: receiving, by the operation management and maintenance OAM, a third request message for requesting to send the second request message.

In an optional embodiment, the third request message includes third request information for requesting statistics on MBMS interest information of the UE. Optionally, the third request message may not include the foregoing third request information, but adopt the existing MBMS service interest statistics request information.

In an optional embodiment, the MCE determines the transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performs the transmission process of the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS, the MCE may select the following operation: suspend or resume one Or multiple MBMSs transmitted through the MBSFN; suspend or resume one or more MBMSs sent by the SC-PTM in the cell. Optionally, in the case that the network deployment is convenient, for a certain service, in an area controlled by an MCE (for example, an area indicated by an MBSFN area ID, or by a certain/some cell), the MCE configuration The transmission mode of an MBMS is: MBSFN mode or SC-PTM mode. In an optional embodiment, determining, according to the determined interest information, a sending manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing the sending process of the MBMS by using the determined sending manner of the MBMS, including: determining the determined interest information. Sending to the operation management and maintenance OAM, wherein the determined interest information is used by the OAM to determine a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and using the determined above The transmission method of the MBMS performs the transmission processing of the MBMS.

In this embodiment, a method for processing a transmission of an MBMS is also provided. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a method for processing a third MBMS according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the process includes the following steps:

Step S502, receiving the determined interest information from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE, where the determined interest information is sent by the evolved eNB or the mobility management entity MME according to the acquired MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE. For the MCE, the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: the service information indicating the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, the capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the location information of the UE, The determined interest information includes at least one of: a number of UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area, and a number of UEs supporting a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network MBSFN transmission mode among UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area The number of UEs supporting a single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode in UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area;

Step S504, determining, according to the determined interest information, a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing the MBMS transmission process by using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS.

Among them, the above operation may be OAM. The OAM may perform the following operations: suspending or restoring one or more transmissions through the MBSFN when determining the transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area and performing the transmission processing of the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS. MBMS; suspend or resume one or more MBMSs sent through the SC-PTM in the cell. Optionally, in the case that the network deployment is convenient, for a certain service, in an area controlled by the OAM (for example, an area indicated by the MBSFN area ID, or by a certain/some cell), the OAM configuration The transmission mode of an MBMS is: MBSFN mode or SC-PTM mode.

The statistical request for the MBMS interest information of the UE may be initiated by the OAM. In a In an optional embodiment, before receiving the determined interest information from the MCE, the method further includes: sending a third request message to the MCE, where the third request message is used to request the MCE to send the second request message to the eNB, The second request message is used to request the eNB to send a first request message to the UE, where the first request message is used to request the UE to feed back the MBMS interest information.

In an optional embodiment, the foregoing first request message includes first request information for requesting statistics of MBMS interest information of the UE, and the second request message includes second request information for requesting statistics of MBMS interest information of the UE, where The third request message includes third request information for requesting statistics of MBMS interest information of the UE. Optionally, the first request message may not include the foregoing first request information, but use the MBMS service interest statistics request information in the prior art; the second request message may not include the second request information, and The MBMS service interest statistics request information in the prior art is used. The third request message may not include the third request information, but the MBMS service interest statistics request information in the prior art.

In the embodiment, a method for processing a MBMS is provided. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a method for processing a fourth MBMS according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the process includes the following steps:

Step S602, receiving MBMS interest information of a UE from an evolved base station (eNB), where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating MBMS that is interested and/or being received by the UE, UE supported Capability information for transmitting a transmission mode of the MBMS and location information of the UE;

Step S604: Determine at least one of the following interest information according to the MBMS interest information, and send the determined interest information to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or the operation management and maintenance OAM, where the determined interest information is used for MCE or OAM Determining a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing transmission processing of the MBMS using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS: the number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, and the UE interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area The number of UEs supporting the multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network MBSFN transmission mode, and the number of UEs supporting the single cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area.

Wherein, the MME may be performed to perform the above operation.

Through the above steps, the interest-related information of the MBMS of the UE can be effectively counted, and The method for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area may be determined according to the MBMS interest information of the UE. The sending manner of the MBMS may include sending by using an MBSFN, sending by using an SC-PTM, sending by using a unicast, or the like, and solving the undetermined MBMS existing in the related art. The problem of the transmission method further achieves the effect of determining the transmission mode of the MBMS and improving the resource utilization efficiency.

In the embodiment, a method for processing the transmission of the MBMS is provided. FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a method for processing the fifth MBMS according to the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 7, the process includes the following steps:

Step S702, receiving a first request message from an evolved base station eNB;

Step S704, the MBMS interest information is fed back to the eNB according to the foregoing first request message, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: service information for indicating the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, and the UE supports the The capability information of the transmission mode of the MBMS and the location information of the UE are transmitted, and the MBMS interest information is used by the eNB to determine a transmission method for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area and perform transmission processing of the MBMS.

Among them, the UE that can perform the above operations.

In an optional embodiment, the first request message includes first request information for requesting statistics of MBMS interest information of the UE. Optionally, the first request message may not include the foregoing first request information, but use the MBMS service interest statistics request information in the prior art.

The embodiments of the present invention are described below in conjunction with specific embodiments:

Example 1:

In this embodiment, the MCE triggers the statistics, and the request message carries the capability request information as an example for description:

In this embodiment, the interest statistics information can be sent through the SC-MCCH, and the signaling flow of requesting other capabilities and other location information of the UE is the same as that in FIG. 2. Since the process is the same, the description is not repeated here. Said.

8 is a flow chart of transmitting MBMS according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 8, the flow includes the following steps (Steps S802-S810 correspond to S1-S5 in FIG. 8, respectively):

Step S802: The MCE sends an MBMS service interest statistics request information (corresponding to the foregoing second request message) (such as the MBMS Service Counting Request message in FIG. 8) to the eNB, where the request information includes one or more of the following information: MCCH transmission The indication of the MCCH update time; the MBSFN identifier; the identifier of the SC-PTM capability requesting the UE; and the identifier of the cell information in which the UE is located.

Step S804: After receiving the request information in step S802, the eNB returns the success confirmation information (such as the MBMS Service Counting Response message in FIG. 8) if the request is successfully received. Otherwise feedback failure information.

Step S806: The eNB sends MBMS service information statistics request information (corresponding to the foregoing first request message) to the UE according to the MBSFN identifier according to the request information in step S802 (such as the MBMS Counting Request message in FIG. 8). The statistical request information needs to be updated and sent at the MCCH time specified by the MCE.

Step S808: After receiving the request information sent by the eNB in step S806, the UE feeds back statistical information (corresponding to the above-mentioned MBMS interest information) according to the current state of the UE (such as the MBMS Counting Response message in FIG. 8), including: SC-PTM capability; service information of interest to the UE; cell information in which the UE is located. The cell information may include serving cell and non-serving cell information of a location where the UE is currently located.

Step S810: After receiving the feedback of one or more UEs in step S808, the eNB performs statistics, and then feeds back the statistical result (corresponding to the determined interest information described above) to the MCE (such as the MBMS Service Counting Result Report message in FIG. 8). The number of UEs that are interested in a certain MBMS service in a certain MBSFN area; the number of UEs that have SC-PTM capability in a certain cell and are interested in an MBMS service. After receiving the eNB feedback, if the number of UEs interested in a certain MBMS service in an MBSFN area is small, the MCE may choose to control the eNB to suspend the service and no longer send the MBMS in the MBSFN area. If a cell is interested in a certain MBMS service and has a certain number of SC-PTM-capable UEs, the MCE may choose to send the service through the SC-PTM in the cell after suspending the MBSFN transmission service. Thus The service now transmits the conversion from MBSFN to SC-PTM.

Example 2:

In this embodiment, the MCE triggers the statistics, and the request message does not carry the capability request information as an example for description:

Compared with Embodiment 1, this embodiment also proposes an improved method for steps S802-S808 in Embodiment 1 as follows. Since the signaling process is the same as Embodiment 1, the description is not repeated. Briefly, the embodiment of the present invention provides another implementation method. The MBMS count request message sent by the network layer (including the MCE and the eNB) to the UE still uses the prior art request message, and the UE feedback of the request message is received. In the message of the technical result, different versions of the UE feed back different content. In particular, the UE supporting the SC-PTM function may additionally report the SC-PTM capability of the UE; and/or the service information of interest to the UE; and/or information such as the cell information in which the UE is located. Optionally, the UE supporting the SC-PTM function may select to report or not report the SC-PTM capability of the UE according to the version of the eNB; and/or service information of interest to the UE; and/or cell information where the UE is located, etc. information. For example, for the eNB of Release 12 or earlier, the UE does not report, and for the eNB of Release 13 or later, the UE reports.

9 is a flow chart of transmitting MBMS according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 9, the flow includes the following steps (Steps S902-S910 correspond to S1-S5 in FIG. 9, respectively):

Step S902: The MCE sends the MBMS service interest statistics request information to the eNB, and the MBMS service interest statistics request information in the prior art can be reused, that is, the information element added in the embodiment of the present invention is not included in the request message (eg, request) The identifier of the SC-PTM capability of the UE; the identifier of the cell information in which the UE is requested, but only the information element of the "MBMS Service Counting Request" of the existing 3GPP Release 12 (Release 12) (eg, message type Message Type, MCCH) Update time MCCH Update Time, TMGI list TMGI list, etc.).

Step S904: Same as step S804 in Embodiment 1.

Step S906: Similarly, the information unit (for example, TMGI list) of the existing 3GPP Release 12 (Release 12) is also reused in the "MBMS Service Information Statistics Request Information" (corresponding to the above-mentioned first request message) sent by the eNB to the UE. That is, there is no information unit added in the embodiment of the present invention (for example, an identifier of the SC-PTM capability of the requesting UE; the cell where the UE is requested) Identification of information).

Step S908: If the UE is a Rel-12 version or a previous UE, the new information unit introduced by the embodiment of the present invention is not reported (for example, the SC-PTM capability of the UE; the service information of the UE; the cell information where the UE is located) If the UE is the Rel-13 version and the last high version, the UE includes the newly added information unit in the report information in the report information (such as step S808 of the embodiment 1: the SC-PTM capability of the UE; the service of interest to the UE) Information; cell information where the UE is located). Optionally, the Rel-13 and the later version of the UE may select to report or not report the SC-PTM capability of the UE according to the version of the eNB; and/or service information of interest to the UE; and/or where the UE is located. Information such as cell information. For example, for the eNB of Release 12 or earlier, the UE does not report, and for the eNB of Release 13 or later, the UE reports.

Step S910: Same as step S810 in Embodiment 1.

Example 3:

In this embodiment, the OAM triggers the statistics, and the request message carries the capability request information as an example for description:

10 is a flow chart of transmitting MBMS according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 10, the flow includes the following steps (Steps S1002-S1016 correspond to S1-S8 in FIG. 10, respectively):

Step S1002: The OAM sends an MBMS service interest statistics request message (corresponding to the foregoing third request message) (such as the MBMS Service Counting Request message in FIG. 10) to the MCE, where the request information includes one or more of the following information: sent by the MCCH. Indication; MCCH update time; MBSFN identifier; identifier of the SC-PTM capability requesting the UE; identifier of the cell information in which the UE is requested.

Step S1004: After receiving the request information in step S1002, the MCE feeds back the success confirmation information (such as the MBMS Service Counting Response message in FIG. 10) if the request is successfully received. Otherwise feedback failure information.

Steps S1006-S1014: Same as S802-S810 in Embodiment 1.

Step S1016: After receiving the feedback of one or more UEs in step S1014, the eNB performs statistics, and then feeds back the statistics result to the MCE (such as the MBMS Service Counting Result Report message in FIG. 10), including: an MBMS in an MBSFN area. Number of UEs interested in the service The number of UEs that have SC-PTM capabilities in a cell and are interested in a certain MBMS service. After receiving the eNB feedback, if the number of UEs interested in an MBMS service in an MBSFN area is small, the OAM may choose to control the MCE to suspend the service and no longer send the MBMS in the MBSFN area. If a certain cell is interested in an MBMS and has a certain number of SC-PTM-capable UEs, the OAM may choose to send the service through the SC-PTM in the cell after suspending the MBSFN transmission service. Thereby, the transmission of the service from MBSFN to SC-PTM is realized.

Example 4:

This example uses OAM to trigger statistics, and the request message does not carry capability request information as an example:

11 is a flow chart of transmitting MBMS according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention (steps S1102-S1116 correspond to S1-S8 in FIG. 11, respectively). As shown in FIG. 11, the flow is basically similar to the flow in Embodiment 3. The same place will not be described again. The following is a description of the difference from the embodiment 3:

Step S1102: The OAM sends the MBMS service interest statistics request information to the MCE, and the MBMS service interest statistics request information in the prior art can be reused, that is, the information element added in the embodiment of the present invention is not included in the request message (eg, request) The identifier of the SC-PTM capability of the UE; the identifier of the cell information in which the UE is located).

Step S1116: If the MCE is the Rel-12 version or the previous MCE does not report the newly added information unit introduced by the embodiment of the present invention (eg, the SC-PTM capability of the UE; the service information of interest to the UE; the cell information where the UE is located) If the MCE is the Rel-13 version and the last high version MCE includes the newly added information unit in the reporting information in the report information (such as step S808 of the embodiment 1: the SC-PTM capability of the UE; the service of interest to the UE) Information; cell information where the UE is located). Optionally, the Rel-13 and the later version of the MCE may select to report or not report the UE's SC-PTM capability according to the OAM version; and/or the UE is interested in the service information; and/or the UE is located. Information such as cell information. For example, for the Release 12 or the previous version of the OAM, the MCE is not reported. For the OAM of Release 13 or later, the MCE is reported.

Example 5:

This embodiment is described by taking the capability of the eNB to count the UE as an example:

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of sending an MBMS according to Embodiment 5 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 12, the process includes the following steps. (The signaling flow of the eNB statistics when the UE reports the MBMS capability is the same as that in Embodiment 2, because the process is the same. The description will not be repeated (steps S1202-S1208 correspond to S1-S4 in Fig. 12, respectively):

Step S1202: The eNB sends capability request information (such as the UE Capability Enquiry message in FIG. 12) to the UE to obtain the current capability of the UE. The capability request information may carry a request for the UE's SC-PTM capability and location information.

Step S1204: After receiving the request in step S1202, the UE feeds back the capability information (such as the UE Capability Info message in FIG. 12) to the eNB, reports whether it supports the capability indication of the SC-PTM, and reports its location information according to the request. The geographical location information may be the cell or location coordinates where the UE is located.

Step S1206: The MCE may need to know whether a certain number of SC-PTM UEs have a certain number of SCs in the case where the number of UEs interested in the current MBSFN area is small, such as the MCE, so as to implement the conversion of the MBMS from the MBSFN mode. To send from SC-PTM mode. In this case, the MCE may request the eNB for the SC-PTM UE number statistics (such as the MBMS Capability Counting Request message in FIG. 12).

Step S1208: After receiving the MCE request in step S1206, the eNB feeds back the statistical information (such as the MBMS Capability Counting Results Report message in FIG. 12), and reports and reports the number of UEs with SC-PTM capability in a certain cell. After receiving the eNB feedback, if the number of UEs interested in an MBMS in an MBSFN area is not large, the MCE may choose to control the eNB to suspend the service and no longer send the MBMS in the MBSFN area. If a certain cell is interested in an MBMS and has a certain number of SC-PTM-capable UEs, the MCE may choose to send the service through the SC-PTM in the cell after suspending the MBSFN transmission service. Thereby, the transmission of the service from MBSFN to SC-PTM is realized.

Example 6

This embodiment uses the MME to calculate the UE capability as an example:

FIG. 13 is a flowchart of sending an MBMS according to Embodiment 6 of the present invention, as shown in FIG. The process includes the following steps (the signaling flow of the eNB statistics when the UE reports the MBMS capability is the same as that of the embodiment 2, and the description is not repeated because the flow is the same) (steps S1302-S1310 correspond to S1-S5 in FIG. 13 respectively):

Step S1302: The eNB sends capability request information (such as the UE Capability Enquiry message in FIG. 13) to the UE to obtain the current capability of the UE. The capability request information may carry a request for the UE's SC-PTM capability and location information.

Step S1304: After receiving the request in step S1302, the UE feeds back the capability information (such as the UE Capability Info message in FIG. 13) to the eNB, reports whether it supports the capability indication of the SC-PTM, and reports its location information according to the request. The geographical location information may be the cell or location coordinates where the UE is located.

Step S1306: The eNB sends the SC-PTM capability information of the UE and the cell information of the UE to the MME (such as the UE Capability Info Indication message in FIG. 13).

Step S1308: The MCE may need to know whether a certain number of SC-PTM UEs have a certain number of SCs in the case where the number of UEs interested in the current MBSFN area is small, such as the MCE, so as to implement the conversion of the MBMS from the MBSFN mode. To send from SC-PTM mode. In this case, the MCE may request the MME from the SC-PTM UE number statistics (such as the MBMS Capability Counting Request message in FIG. 13).

Step S1310: After receiving the MCE request in step S1308, the MME feeds back the statistical information (such as the MBMS Capability Counting Results Report message in FIG. 13), and reports and reports the number of SC-PTM-capable UEs in a certain cell, and the MCE receives the eNB. After the feedback, if the number of UEs interested in an MBMS in an MBSFN area is not large, the MCE may choose to control the eNB to suspend the service so that the MBMS is no longer sent in the MBSFN area. If a certain cell is interested in an MBMS and has a certain number of SC-PTM-capable UEs, the MCE may choose to send the service through the SC-PTM in the cell after suspending the MBSFN transmission service. Thereby, the transmission of the service from MBSFN to SC-PTM is realized.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the method according to the above embodiment can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and of course, by hardware, but in many cases, the former is A better implementation. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention may be in software or in part that contributes to the prior art. The form of the product is embodied. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, disk, CD) and includes a plurality of instructions for making a terminal device (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, or a network device). Etc.) Performing the methods described in various embodiments of the invention.

In the embodiment, a transmission processing device for the MBMS is provided, which is used to implement the foregoing embodiments and optional implementations, and details are not described herein. As used below, the term "module" may implement a combination of software and/or hardware of a predetermined function. Although the apparatus described in the following embodiments is preferably implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware, is also possible and contemplated.

FIG. 14 is a structural block diagram of a first MBMS transmission processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 14, the apparatus may be applied to an evolved base station eNB, including an obtaining module 142 and a first processing module 144. The device will be described.

The obtaining module 142 is configured to obtain the MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: the service information used to indicate the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, and the UE supports the sending The capability information of the transmission mode of the MBMS and the location information of the UE; the first processing module 144 is connected to the acquisition module 142, and is configured to determine, according to the MBMS interest information, a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area and perform transmission of the MBMS. deal with.

In an optional embodiment, the acquiring module 142 may obtain the MBMS interest information of the UE by sending a first request message to the UE, and acquiring the MBMS interest information that the UE feeds back according to the first request message. The first request information may be sent by using at least one of the following logical channel MBMS control channels: SC-MCCH; MCCH; other dedicated logical channels. The content of the first request information may include: MBMS service information (MBMS service information generally refers to a TMGI identifier, and may also be: a service identifier Service ID, a session identifier Session ID, and an MBMS traffic channel identifier (MBTS traffic channel identity, referred to as MTCH). ID), MBMS service area identity (SAI); may also include one or more of the following information: geographic location information; UE capability request information of MBMS; UE capability request information of SC-PTM; MCCH Update time; update time of SC-MCCH; other information. Optionally, the foregoing geographical location information includes one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; Status location area coordinate information; other geographic location information. Optionally, after receiving the foregoing first request message, the UE may send feedback information (corresponding to the foregoing MBMS interest information) to the eNB, where the content of the feedback information includes one or more of the following information: MBMS service information being received; SC-PTM reception capability of the UE; MBMS reception capability of the UE; geographical location information of the UE; other information. Optionally, the geographic location information of the UE includes one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; status location area coordinate information; and other geographic location information.

The first request message may include first request information for requesting statistics on MBMS interest information of the UE. Alternatively, the foregoing first request message may also use the MBMS service interest statistics request information in the prior art, that is, the above-mentioned first request message does not have the above-mentioned new information unit (ie, the first request mentioned above). Information) (eg, the identifier of the SC-PTM capability requesting the UE; the identifier of the cell information in which the UE is requested) may include only the information element of the "MBMS SERVICE COUNTING REQUEST" of the existing 3GPP Release 12 (Release 12) (eg: message) Type Message Type, MCCH Update Time MCCH Update Time, TMGI List TMGI list, etc.).

In an optional embodiment, the obtaining, by the acquiring module 142, the first request message to the UE is: receiving a second request message from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity (MCE), and sending the second request message to the UE according to the second request message. Send the first request message. Optionally, in this embodiment, the MCE may send request information for collecting the MBMS interest of the user to the eNB, where the MBMS interest information may refer to: receiving or interested to receive for a certain MBMS. The statistical user's MBMS interest refers to: counting the number of UEs that are receiving or interested in receiving the service. The second request message may be sent by using the MCCH, and the content of the second request message may include: the foregoing MBMS service information; the second request message may further include one or more of the following information: geographic location information; UE capability request information of MBMS; UE capability request information of SC-PTM; update time of MCCH; update time of SC-MCCH; other information. Optionally, the foregoing geographical location information may include one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; status location area coordinate information; and other geographical location information. Optionally, after receiving the foregoing second request message, the eNB may feed back to the MCE to acknowledge receiving the request information, including feedback of successful or unsuccessful reception of the request information.

In an optional embodiment, the foregoing second request message is a request message that is determined by the MCE after receiving the third request message sent from the operation management and maintenance OAM.

In an optional embodiment, the acquiring module 142 may send the first request message to the UE according to the foregoing second request message by sending the first request message to the UE by using the MBMS control channel according to the second request message, where The MBMS control channel includes a single cell multicast control channel SC-MCCH and/or MCCH.

In an optional embodiment, the acquiring module 142 may obtain the MBMS interest information that is sent by the UE according to the first request message by: acquiring, by the UE in the RRC connection state of the RRC, the feedback according to the first request message. The MBMS interest information, where the UE in the RRC connected state of the radio resource control includes the UE that has been in the RRC connected state, and/or the UE that enters the RRC connected state by the RRC idle state. In this embodiment, the UE in the RRC idle state may also not send feedback information to the eNB, that is, only the UE in the RRC connected state feeds back information to the eNB.

In an optional embodiment, the foregoing first processing module 144 may determine, according to the foregoing MBMS interest information, a sending manner for transmitting the foregoing MBMS in a predetermined area, and perform a sending process of the MBMS: determining the following according to the MBMS interest information. At least one of the interest information: the number of UEs interested in MBMS in the above-mentioned predetermined area, and the number of UEs supporting the MBMSN transmission mode of the multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network in the UEs interested in the MBMS in the above-mentioned predetermined area, The number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode in the UEs interested in the MBMS in the foregoing predetermined area; transmitting the determined interest information to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or running management and maintenance OAM, wherein The above-described determined interest information is used by the MCE or the OAM to determine a transmission method for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performs the transmission processing of the MBMS by using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS. Optionally, when the eNB sends the determined interest information to the OAM, the eNB may first send the information to the MCE, and then forward the data to the OAM through the MCE. The foregoing determined interest information may further include geographic location information of the UE, where the geographic location information may include one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; status location area coordinate information; and other geographic location information. The foregoing number of UEs supporting different transmission modes may include at least one of the following: the number of UEs in the RRC connected state; and the number of UEs in the RRC idle state (if the RRC idle state UE also needs to enter the RRC connection and then feedback) The total number of UEs.

In an optional embodiment, the first processing module 144 may determine, according to the foregoing MBMS interest information, a sending manner for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area, and perform a sending process of the MBMS: sending the MBMS interest information. And the mobility management entity MME, wherein the MBMS interest information is used by the MME to determine at least one of the following interest information, and the determined interest information is sent to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or the operation management and maintenance OAM, where the determined The interest information is used by the MCE or the OAM to determine a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performs a transmission process of the MBMS by using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS: the number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, Supporting single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission in a UE that is interested in MBMS in a multimedia broadcast multicast service single-frequency network MBSFN transmission mode among UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area, and UEs interested in MBMS in the above-mentioned predetermined area The number of UEs in the mode. The foregoing determined interest information may further include geographic location information of the UE, where the geographic location information may include one or more of the following information: MBSFN area information; cell information; status location area coordinate information; and other geographic location information. The foregoing number of UEs supporting different transmission modes may include at least one of the following: the number of UEs in the RRC connected state; and the number of UEs in the RRC idle state (if the RRC idle state UE also needs to enter the RRC connection and then feedback) The total number of UEs.

FIG. 15 is a structural block diagram of a second MBMS transmission processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 15, the apparatus may be applied to a MAC, including a first receiving module 152 and a second processing module 154. The device will be described.

The first receiving module 152 is configured to receive the determined interest information from the evolved base station eNB or the mobility management entity MME, where the determined interest information is determined by the eNB or the MME according to the acquired MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE, The foregoing MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: service information for indicating MBMS that is interested and/or being received by the UE, capability information of a UE for transmitting a mode for transmitting the MBMS, and location information of the UE, the determined interest. The information includes at least one of: a number of UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area, a number of UEs supporting a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network MBSFN transmission mode among UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area, The number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode in the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area; the second processing module 154 is connected to the first receiving module 152, and is set to be determined according to the above determined interest The information determines a transmission method for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performs transmission processing of the MBMS using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS.

In an optional embodiment, the foregoing MBMS transmission processing apparatus further includes a fourth processing module, and the fourth processing module is connected to the first receiving module 152, and is configured to receive the foregoing determination from the eNB or the MME. Before the interest information, the second request message is sent to the eNB, where the second request message is used to request the eNB to send a first request message to the UE, where the first request message is used to request the UE to feed back the MBMS interest information.

In an optional embodiment, the foregoing MBMS transmission processing apparatus further includes a fifth processing module, where the fifth processing module is connected to the fourth processing module, and is configured to send the second request message to the eNB before Receiving a third request message from the operation management and maintenance OAM for requesting to send the second request message.

In an optional embodiment, the second processing module 154 may perform the following operations: when the MCE determines a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performs the transmission process of the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS, The MCE may select the following operations: suspend or resume one or more MBMSs transmitted through the MBSFN; suspend or resume one or more MBMSs transmitted through the SC-PTM in the cell. Optionally, in the case that the network deployment is convenient, for a certain service, in an area controlled by an MCE (for example, an area indicated by an MBSFN area ID, or by a certain/some cell), the MCE configuration The transmission mode of an MBMS is: MBSFN mode or SC-PTM mode. In an optional embodiment, determining, according to the determined interest information, a sending manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing the sending process of the MBMS by using the determined sending manner of the MBMS, including: determining the determined interest information. The OAM is sent to the operation management and maintenance OCO, wherein the determined interest information is used by the OAM to determine a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and the MBMS transmission process is performed by using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS.

FIG. 16 is a structural block diagram of a third MBMS transmission processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 16, the apparatus may be applied to an OAM, including a second receiving module 162 and a third processing module 164. The device will be described.

The second receiving module 162 is configured to receive the determined interest information from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE, where the determined interest information is an MBMS interest of the evolved eNB or the mobility management entity MME according to the acquired user equipment UE After the information is determined and sent to the MCE, the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: the service information used to indicate the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or is receiving, and the UE supports the sending for sending the MBMS. The capability information of the mode and the location information of the UE, the determined interest information includes at least one of the following: The number of UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area, the number of UEs supporting a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network MBSFN transmission mode among UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, a number of UEs supporting a single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode in the UE that is interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area; the third processing module 164 is connected to the second receiving module 162, and is configured to be determined according to the foregoing. The interest information determines a transmission method for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performs transmission processing of the MBMS using the determined transmission method of the above MBMS.

The third processing module 164 may determine, according to the manner, a sending manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and perform a sending process of the MBMS by using the determined sending manner of the MBMS: suspending or restoring one or more MBMS transmitted through MBSFN; suspends or resumes one or more MBMSs transmitted through the SC-PTM in the cell. Optionally, in the case that the network deployment is convenient, for a certain service, in an area controlled by the OAM (for example, an area indicated by the MBSFN area ID, or by a certain/some cell), the OAM configuration The transmission mode of an MBMS is: MBSFN mode or SC-PTM mode.

In an optional embodiment, the foregoing MBMS transmission processing apparatus may further include a sixth processing module, where the sixth processing module is connected to the second receiving module 162, configured to receive the determined interest information from the MCE, Sending a third request message to the MCE, where the third request message is used to request the MCE to send a second request message to the eNB, where the second request message is used to request the eNB to send a first request message to the UE, where the first request message is used by The UE is requested to feed back the MBMS interest information.

17 is a structural block diagram of a fourth MBMS transmission processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, As shown in FIG. 17, the apparatus can be applied to the MME, including the third receiving module 172 and the transmitting module 174, which will be described below.

The third receiving module 172 is configured to receive MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE from the evolved base station eNB, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: a service for indicating the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving. The information, the UE supports the capability information for transmitting the MBMS, and the location information of the UE. The sending module 174 is connected to the third receiving module 172, and is configured to determine at least one of the following interest information according to the MBMS interest information. Sending the determined interest information to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or the operation management and maintenance OAM, wherein the determined interest information is used by the MCE or the OAM to determine a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and using the determined The MBMS transmission mode performs the MBMS transmission process: the number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, and the UEs supporting the MBMSN transmission mode in the MBMSN transmission mode in the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area. The number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area.

FIG. 18 is a structural block diagram of a fifth MBMS transmission processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 18, the apparatus may be applied to a UE, including a fourth receiving module 182 and a feedback module 184. The device is described.

The fourth receiving module 182 is configured to receive the first request message from the evolved base station eNB, and the feedback module 184 is connected to the fourth receiving module 182, and is configured to feed back the MBMS interest information to the eNB according to the first request message, where The MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: the service information for indicating the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, the capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the location information of the UE, and the MBMS interest information is used by the MBMS interest information. The eNB determines a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area and performs transmission processing of the MBMS described above.

It should be noted that each of the above modules may be implemented by software or hardware. For the latter, the foregoing may be implemented by, but not limited to, the foregoing modules are all located in the same processor; Alternatively, the above modules are located in multiple processors.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a storage medium. Optionally, in the embodiment, the foregoing storage medium may be configured to store program code for performing the following steps:

S11. Obtain the MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: the service information used to indicate the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or is receiving, and the sending manner supported by the UE for sending the MBMS. Capability information and location information of the UE;

S12. Determine, according to the MBMS interest information, a transmission processing procedure for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area and executing the MBMS.

Optionally, the storage medium is further arranged to store program code for performing the following steps:

S21: Receive the determined interest information from the evolved base station eNB or the mobility management entity MME, where the determined interest information is determined by the eNB or the MME according to the acquired MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE, where the MBMS interest information includes the following: At least one of: the service information for indicating the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, the capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the location information of the UE, where the determined interest information includes at least one of the following: : the number of UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area, the number of UEs supporting a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network MBSFN transmission mode among UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area, and MBMS in a predetermined area The number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode in the UE of interest;

S22. Determine, according to the determined interest information, a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and perform the MBMS transmission process by using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS.

S31: Receive the determined interest information from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE, where the determined interest information is sent to the MCE after the determined eNB or the mobility management entity MME determines according to the acquired MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE. The MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: the service information for indicating the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, the capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the location information of the UE, the foregoing determining The interest information includes at least one of: a number of UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area, and a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network in a UE interested in MBMS in a predetermined area. The number of UEs in the MBSFN transmission mode, and the number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area;

S32. Determine, according to the determined interest information, a transmission method for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and execute a transmission process of the MBMS by using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS.

S41. Receive MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE from the evolved base station eNB, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: the service information used to indicate the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, and the UE supports The capability information of the transmission mode of the MBMS and the location information of the UE;

S42. Determine at least one of the following interest information according to the MBMS interest information, and send the determined interest information to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or the operation management and maintenance OAM, where the determined interest information is used for MCE or OAM determination. The transmission mode of the MBMS is transmitted in the predetermined area, and the transmission process of the MBMS is performed by using the determined transmission mode of the MBMS: the number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, and the UE interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area. The number of UEs supporting the multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network MBSFN transmission mode, and the number of UEs supporting the single cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in MBMS in a predetermined area.

S51. Receive a first request message from an evolved base station eNB.

S52. The MBMS interest information is fed back to the eNB according to the foregoing first request message, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: the service information used to indicate the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, and the UE supports the sending The capability information of the MBMS transmission method and the location information of the UE, the MBMS interest information is used by the eNB to determine a transmission processing procedure for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area and executing the MBMS.

Optionally, in the embodiment, the foregoing storage medium may include, but is not limited to, a USB flash drive, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), and a Random Access Memory (RAM). Mobile hard disk, disk or CD, etc. can store program generation The medium of the code.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the processor executes the steps in the foregoing method embodiments according to the stored program code in the storage medium.

For example, the specific examples in this embodiment may refer to the examples described in the foregoing embodiments and the optional embodiments, and details are not described herein again.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the various modules or steps of the present invention described above can be implemented by a general-purpose computing device that can be centralized on a single computing device or distributed across a network of multiple computing devices. Alternatively, they may be implemented by program code executable by the computing device such that they may be stored in the storage device by the computing device and, in some cases, may be different from the order herein. The steps shown or described are performed, or they are separately fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or a plurality of modules or steps thereof are fabricated as a single integrated circuit module. Thus, the invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only an alternative embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes can be made to the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and scope of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Industrial applicability

The present application provides a method and an apparatus for transmitting a MBMS, the method comprising: acquiring MBMS interest information of a UE, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: an MBMS for indicating that the UE is interested and/or receiving. The service information, the capability information for transmitting the MBMS transmission mode supported by the UE, and the location information of the UE; and determining, according to the MBMS interest information, a transmission processing procedure for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area and executing the MBMS. The present application can solve the problem that the transmission method of the MBMS cannot be determined in the related art, and further achieves the effect of determining the transmission mode of the MBMS and improving the resource utilization efficiency.

Claims

A method for processing a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS, the method comprising:

Obtaining MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in the UE and/or being received, and a UE for transmitting Capability information of a transmission mode of the MBMS and location information of the UE;

Determining, according to the MBMS interest information, a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area, and executing a transmission processing procedure of the MBMS.
The method of claim 1, wherein the acquiring the MBMS interest information of the UE comprises:

Sending a first request message to the UE;

Obtaining the MBMS interest information that is sent by the UE according to the first request message.
The method of claim 2, wherein

The first request message includes: first request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE.
The method of claim 2, wherein the sending the first request message to the UE comprises:

Receiving a second request message from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE;

Sending a first request message to the UE according to the second request message.
The method of claim 4, wherein

The second request message includes: second request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE.
The method according to claim 4, wherein the second request message is: the MCE determines the request message after receiving the third request message sent from the management and maintenance OAM.
The method of claim 6 wherein

The third request message includes: the MBMS interest information used to request statistics on the UE Third request information.
The method of claim 4, wherein the sending the first request message to the UE according to the second request message comprises:

And sending, according to the second request message, the first request message to the UE by using an MBMS control channel, where the MBMS control channel comprises: a single cell multicast control channel SC-MCCH and/or an MCCH.
The method of claim 2, wherein acquiring the MBMS interest information that is sent by the UE according to the first request message comprises:

Obtaining, by the UE in the RRC connection state of the RRC, the MBMS interest information that is fed back according to the first request message,

The UE in the RRC connected state of the radio resource control includes: a UE that is always in the RRC connected state, and/or a UE that enters the RRC connected state by an RRC idle state.
The method according to claim 1, wherein determining, according to the MBMS interest information, a sending manner for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area and performing a sending processing procedure of the MBMS, includes:

Determining at least one of the following interest information according to the MBMS interest information: a number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, and a multimedia broadcast in a UE that is interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area The number of UEs in the MBSFN transmission mode of the broadcast service single frequency network, and the number of UEs supporting the single cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area;

Sending the determined interest information to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or the operation management and maintenance OAM, wherein the determined interest information is used by the MCE or OAM to determine, in the predetermined area, for transmitting the MBMS The transmission method is performed, and the transmission processing procedure of the MBMS is performed by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS.
The method according to claim 1, wherein determining, according to the MBMS interest information, a sending manner for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area and performing a sending processing procedure of the MBMS, includes:

Transmitting the MBMS interest information to a mobility management entity MME, where the MBMS The interest information is used by the MME to determine at least one of the following interest information, and send the determined interest information to a multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or to run management and maintenance OAM, the determined interest information being used for the MCE or OAM Determining a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing the transmission processing of the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS:

The number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, and the number of UEs supporting the MBMSN transmission mode of the multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network in the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, The number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area.
A method for processing a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS, the method comprising:

Receiving the determined interest information from the evolved base station eNB or the mobility management entity MME;

The determined interest information is determined by the eNB or the MME according to the obtained MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE;

The MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in and/or being received by the UE, capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the Location information of the UE;

The determined interest information includes at least one of: a number of UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area, and a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency supported in a UE that is interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area. The number of UEs in the network MBSFN transmission mode, and the number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area;

Determining, according to the determined interest information, a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing a transmission processing procedure of the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS.
The method of claim 12, before receiving the determined interest information from the eNB or the MME, the method further comprising:

Sending a second request message to the eNB, where the second request message is used to request the eNB to send a first request message to the UE, where the first request message is used to request the UE to provide feedback. The MBMS interest information.
The method of claim 13 wherein

The first request message includes: first request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE, and the second request message includes a second request for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE Request information.
The method according to claim 13, before the sending the second request message to the eNB, the method further includes:

Receiving a third request message from the operation management and maintenance OAM for requesting to send the second request message.
The method of claim 15 wherein

The third request message includes: third request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE.
The method according to claim 12, wherein a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area is determined according to the determined interest information, and the MBMS is performed by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS Send processing process, including:

And transmitting the determined interest information to the operation management and maintenance OAM, wherein the determined interest information is used by the OAM to determine a sending manner for sending the MBMS in the predetermined area, and using the determined location The MBMS transmission processing procedure is performed by the MBMS transmission method.
A method for processing a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS, the method comprising:

Receiving determined interest information from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE;

The determined interest information is: the evolved eNB or the mobility management entity MME sends the MCE to the MCE after determining according to the obtained MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE;

The MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in and/or being received by the UE, capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the Location information of the UE;

The determined interest information includes at least one of the following: the sense of the MBMS in a predetermined area Number of UEs of interest, number of UEs supporting a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network MBSFN transmission mode among UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area The number of UEs supporting single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode in the UE;

Determining, according to the determined interest information, a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and performing a transmission processing procedure of the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS.
The method of claim 18, before receiving the determined interest information from the MCE, the method further comprising:

Sending a third request message to the MCE, where the third request message is used to request the MCE to send a second request message to the eNB, where the second request message is used to request the eNB to send the UE Sending a first request message, where the first request message is used to request the UE to feed back the MBMS interest information.
The method of claim 19, wherein

The first request message includes first request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE, and the second request message includes a second request for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE Information, the third request message includes third request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE.
A method for processing a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS, the method comprising:

Receiving MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE from the evolved base station eNB;

The MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in the UE and/or being received, capability information supported by the UE to send the MBMS, and Location information of the UE;

Determining at least one of the following interest information according to the MBMS interest information, and transmitting the determined interest information to a multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or running management and maintenance OAM, wherein the determined interest information is used for the MCE or The OAM determines a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area, and performs a transmission processing procedure of the MBMS by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS:

The number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, and the number of UEs supporting the MBMSN transmission mode of the multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network in the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, The number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area.
A method for processing a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS, the method comprising:

Receiving a first request message from an evolved base station eNB;

And feeding back, to the eNB, MBMS interest information according to the first request message;

The MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: the service information for indicating the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, the capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the location information of the UE. The MBMS interest information is used by the eNB to determine a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area and perform transmission processing of the MBMS.
The method of claim 22, wherein the first request message comprises first request information for requesting statistics of the MBMS interest information of the UE.
A transmission processing device for a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS, the device comprising:

And an acquiring module, configured to acquire MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in the UE and/or being received, the UE supports Capability information for transmitting the transmission mode of the MBMS and location information of the UE;

The first processing module is configured to determine, according to the MBMS interest information, a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area, and execute a transmission processing procedure of the MBMS.
A transmission processing device for a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS, the device comprising:

a first receiving module, configured to receive the determined interest information from the evolved base station eNB or the mobility management entity MME, where the determined interest information is: the eNB or the MME according to the acquired MBMS of the user equipment UE Interest information determined;

The MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in and/or being received by the UE, capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the Location information of the UE;

The determined interest information includes at least one of: a number of UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area, and a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency supported in a UE that is interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area. The number of UEs in the network MBSFN transmission mode, and the number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area;

The second processing module is configured to determine, according to the determined interest information, a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and execute the MBMS transmission processing procedure by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS.
A transmission processing device for a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS, the device comprising:

a second receiving module, configured to receive the determined interest information from the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE;

The determined interest information is sent to the MCE by the evolved eNB or the mobility management entity MME after being determined according to the obtained MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE;

The MBMS interest information includes at least one of: service information indicating an MBMS that is interested in and/or being received by the UE, capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the Location information of the UE;

The determined interest information includes at least one of: a number of UEs interested in the MBMS in a predetermined area, and a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency supported in a UE that is interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area. The number of UEs in the network MBSFN transmission mode, and the number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area;

The third processing module is configured to determine, according to the determined interest information, a transmission manner for transmitting the MBMS in the predetermined area, and execute the MBMS transmission processing procedure by using the determined transmission manner of the MBMS.
A transmission processing device for a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS, the device comprising:

a third receiving module, configured to receive MBMS interest information of the user equipment UE from the evolved base station eNB, where the MBMS interest information includes at least one of: an MBMS for indicating that the UE is interested and/or receiving Service information, used by the UE for Transmitting capability information of the MBMS transmission mode and location information of the UE;

The sending module is configured to determine at least one of the following interest information according to the MBMS interest information, and send the determined interest information to the multi-cell multicast coordination entity MCE or the operation management and maintenance OAM, where the determined interest information is used by Determining, by the MCE or the OAM, a sending manner for sending the MBMS in a predetermined area, and performing a sending process of the MBMS by using the determined sending manner of the MBMS:

The number of UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, and the number of UEs supporting the MBMSN transmission mode of the multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network in the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area, The number of UEs supporting the single-cell point-to-multipoint SC-PTM transmission mode among the UEs interested in the MBMS in the predetermined area.
A transmission processing device for a multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS, the device comprising:

a fourth receiving module, configured to receive a first request message from an evolved base station eNB;

a feedback module, configured to feed back MBMS interest information to the eNB according to the first request message;

The MBMS interest information includes at least one of the following: the service information for indicating the MBMS that the UE is interested in and/or receiving, the capability information supported by the UE for transmitting the MBMS, and the location information of the UE. The MBMS interest information is used by the eNB to determine a transmission mode for transmitting the MBMS in a predetermined area and perform transmission processing of the MBMS.