Method and device for monitoring MCCH notification information, and user equipment

A device for monitoring Multicast Control Channel (MCCH) notification information, comprising:

• a first determining unit, a first monitoring unit and a second monitoring unit, wherein,
• the first determining unit is adapted to, in a Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) cell that includes more than two MCCHs, when determining that an MBMS service required by the UE is not started, further determine whether there is a correspondence relationship between the required MBMS service and the MCCHs, if there is, trigger the first monitoring unit, otherwise, trigger the second monitoring unit;
• the first monitoring unit is adapted to only monitor notification information of an MCCH corresponding to the required MBMS service;
• the second monitoring unit is adapted to monitor notification information of all the MCCHs in the MBSFN cell,
• wherein the UE is the one that is in RRC_IDLE status or RRC_CONNECTED status;
• the UE is the one that is receiving an MBMS service or the one that is interested in receiving an MBMS service, wherein the MBSFN cell includes more than two MCCHs and, the MBSFN cell is located in an area where more than two MBSFN areas are overlapped;
• the first determining unit obtains the correspondence relationship between an MBMS service and the MCCHs according to at least one of ESG, MCCH information, short message, multimedia message, system message, RRC information and MCCH notification information received by the UE, and further determines whether the required MBMS service has a corresponding MCCH.