Cellular communication system for broadcast communication
AssigneeNVIDIA Corporation
InventorStephen Barrett
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Abstract
A cellular communication system is described for supporting broadcast transmission in at least one of a plurality of communication cells. The cellular communication system comprises at least one base station (210) capable of broadcasting content to at least one wireless communication unit (226) via at least one relay node (RN) (224), wherein the at least one base station (210) is arranged to supplement the broadcast transmission with at least one augmented unicast transmission associated with the broadcast content.
Claims14
A cellular communication system for supporting broadcast transmission in at least one of a plurality of communication cells, the cellular communication system comprising at least one base station broadcasting non-rebroadcasted content to both at least one relay node (RN) and at least one wireless communication unit at the same time;
- wherein the at least one base station is arranged to supplement the broadcast transmission with at least one augmented unicast transmission associated with the non-rebroadcasted content broadcast at the same time as the broadcast transmission, the at least one augmented unicast transmission received by the at least one wireless communication unit.
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