Apparatus and method for configuring dynamic MBS zone for macro-diversity gain in cellular system

1. A method for configuring a multicast/broadcast service (hereinafter, referred to as “MBS”) zone of a terminal in a base station, comprising:

determining whether terminals connected for communication are positioned in a boundary area of a cell by calculating positions of the terminals; and

deciding, by the base station, an MBS zone of the terminals positioned in the boundary area of the cell,

wherein the determining includes:

including a time offset value in a response message for a periodic ranging request from the terminal connected for communication to thereby transmit the time offset value to the terminal; and

calculating the position of the terminal using the transmitted time offset value,

wherein the calculating includes calculating the position of the terminal by substituting the time offset value into the following Equation 2:

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offset

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where c denotes the speed of light (3×10 8 [m/sec]), and Fs denotes a sampling frequency.

2. A method for configuring a multicast/broadcast service (hereinafter, referred to as “MBS”) zone of terminals in a base station, comprising:

determining whether the terminals connected for communication are positioned in a boundary area of a cell by calculating positions of the terminals;

deciding, by the base station, the MBS zone of the terminals positioned in the boundary area of the cell; and

determining whether interference is present in signals received by the terminals positioned in the boundary area of the cell,

wherein the deciding decides the MBS zone of the terminals in accordance with presence/absence of the interference,

wherein, when interference is absent, the deciding configures the MBS zone using a total of four base stations including three neighboring base stations and a serving base station in order of descending CINR by verifying the CINR of the neighboring base stations received from the terminals.

3. The method for configuring an MBS zone according to claim 2 , wherein the determining includes determining that the terminal is positioned in the boundary area of the cell when the terminal is positioned at a range of 750 m to 1,000 m from a center base station.

4. The method for configuring an MBS zone according to claim 2 , wherein the determining whether interference is present includes:

requesting, from a corresponding terminal, a Carrier to Interference and Noise Ratio (CINR) of a serving base station and neighboring base stations;

receiving the CINR of the serving base station and the neighboring base stations as a CINR report from the corresponding terminal; and

determining that interference from neighboring base station is present when the CINR is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value.

5. The method for configuring an MBS zone according to claim 4 , wherein the threshold value is 3 dB.

6. The method for configuring an MBS zone according to claim 2 , wherein, when interference is present, the deciding includes configuring the MBS zone using a total of three base stations including two neighboring base stations and the serving base station in order of descending CINR by verifying the CINR of the neighboring base stations received from the terminals.

7. The method for configuring an MBS zone according to claim 2 , further comprising:

transmitting MBS zone configuration result information to an MBS management device, and requesting allocation of the MBS zone from a corresponding terminal.

8. A method for configuring a multicast/broadcast service (hereinafter, referred to as “MBS”) zone of terminals in a base station, comprising:

determining whether the terminals connected for communication are positioned in a boundary area of a cell by calculating positions of the terminals;

deciding the MBS zone of the terminals positioned in the boundary area of the cell, and

determining whether interference is present in signals received by the terminals positioned in the boundary area of the cell,

wherein the deciding decides the MBS zone of the terminals in accordance with presence/absence of the interference,

wherein, when interference is absent, the deciding configures the MBS zone using a total of four base stations including three neighboring base stations and a serving base station in order of descending CINR by verifying the CINR of the neighboring base stations received from the terminals.