Patent ID: 11962380
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A base station comprising:
a transceiver; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to:
control the transceiver to transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a radio resource control (RRC) message including configuration information, wherein the configuration information comprises:
an identifier;
a serving cell index;
a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) information element that represents at least one CSI-RS resource configuration for reporting a CSI, and
a channel state information interference measurement (CSI-IM) information element that represents at least one CSI-IM resource configuration for the reporting the CSI,

wherein the identifier corresponds to both the at least one CSI-RS resource configuration and the least one CSI-IM resource configuration, and
control the transceiver to receive, from the UE, a CSI based on the configuration information.