Patent ID: 11937249
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A method of operation of a user equipment in a cellular communications network, comprising:
receiving a downlink subframe from the cellular communications network, the downlink subframe comprising a downlink control channel from the cellular communications network wherein a search space associated with the downlink control channel comprises a plurality of sets of downlink control channel physical resources;
assuming that one or more antenna ports in the one of the plurality of sets is/are quasi co-located with respect to an antenna port of interest in the search space in accordance with one or more predefined rules that define which of the one or more antenna ports are quasi co-located for the downlink control channel; and
utilize the assumption to estimate one or more large-scale channel properties associated with the antenna port of interest.