Patent ID: 9456449
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A user equipment comprising: a receiver configured to receive downlink resource allocations from a base station, wherein a received downlink resource allocation indicates to the user equipment which downlink resources of a plurality of downlink resources have been allocated to the user equipment for a downlink transmission; a measurement device configured to perform a plurality of downlink measurements for the plurality of downlink resources, wherein the plurality of downlink measurements are performed to determine channel quality information associated with one or more of the plurality of downlink resources; a channel quality determination device configured to: a transmitter configured to transmit at least one channel quality report to the base station, wherein the at least one channel quality report comprises the first channel quality indication and the second channel quality indication, and the second channel quality indication is reported as a differential channel quality with respect to the first channel quality indication.