Google llc (20250008593). MANAGING UNICAST, MULTICAST AND BROADCAST TRANSMISSIONS
MANAGING UNICAST, MULTICAST AND BROADCAST TRANSMISSIONS
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Chih-Hsiang Wu of Taoyuan City TW
MANAGING UNICAST, MULTICAST AND BROADCAST TRANSMISSIONS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250008593 titled 'MANAGING UNICAST, MULTICAST AND BROADCAST TRANSMISSIONS
Original Abstract Submitted
a method for delivering data to user equipments (ues) is implemented in a node of a radio access network (ran), and includes receiving, from a network node, a packet including data that is to be delivered from a core network (cn) to one or more user equipments (ues); transmitting the packet to at least some of the one or more ues via a broadcast transmission when the packet is received via a common downlink tunnel or via a first dl tunnel of a plurality of dl tunnels; and transmitting the packet to a particular ue of the one or more ues via a unicast transmission when the packet is not received via the common downlink tunnel or is received via a second dl tunnel of the plurality of dl tunnels.