Patent ID: 9525521
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A scheduling method of a communication system, the scheduling method comprising the steps of: determining, at a centralized controller, a Coordinated Multi-point Transmission/Reception (CoMP) set including at least two cell among a plurality of cells, each cell included in the CoMP set being capable of transmitting data to a terminal that supports a CoMP function; determining, at the centralized controller, transmitting time of the cells in the CoMP set; transmitting, at the centralized controller, scheduling information including an indicator for indicating which of the cells in the CoMP set are to transmit the data, and notifying a terminal of the COMP set comprising combination information of an availability of a serving cell and a Common Reference Signal (CRS) transmission resource indicating joint transmission is available, wherein the combination information in the CoMP set negates a notification of unavailable joint transmissions, which is sent when the serving cell is not available; and transmitting, at the cells in the COMP set, the scheduling information to the terminal.