Patent ID: 9344953
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and memory storing computer program code; wherein said memory and said computer program code are configured to, with said at least one processor, cause said apparatus to at least: generate a reference signal employable with a plurality of physical resource blocks, the plurality of physical resource blocks spanning a range of frequency and time components corresponding to the full bandwidth of a communication system, allocate resource elements of an assigned physical resource block from said plurality of physical resource blocks to a user equipment, generate a dedicated reference signal sequence for said user equipment by allocating elements of said reference signal in accordance with allocated resource elements of said assigned physical resource block and in accordance with an antenna port index of said user equipment, and initialize said dedicated reference signal sequence in each subframe according to a subframe number.