Patent ID: 9288698
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H04B,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: one or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions; and one or more processors coupled with the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media and configured to execute the instructions to: wherein at least one of the one or more transmission points is configured to communicate the power parameter to the at least one wireless device, and wherein the at least one wireless device is configured to determine, based at least in part on the power parameter, a power characteristics associated with a channel in which the reference signal is provided, wherein the power characteristics is a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), and wherein the power parameter is a scaling parameter applied to calculate RSRP using an RSRP calculation function, wherein to determine the power characteristics includes to multiply a parameter estimated on the channel using an antenna port of a channel state information signal (CSI-RS), by the scaling parameter, wherein the scaling parameter is to range from −8 dB to 15 dB, wherein the reference signal is the CSI-RS.