Patent ID: 9350516
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A mobile station for a time division duplex based wireless communication system, comprising: means for receiving a plurality of reference signal transmissions transmitted at a respective plurality of transmission power levels by a serving base station and at least one of neighboring base stations; means for measuring a plurality of received signal power levels for the respective plurality of reference signal transmissions; means for determining a radio propagation condition between the mobile station and the serving base station and radio propagation conditions between the mobile station and the at least one of neighboring base stations; means for generating a metric derived from the radio propagation condition between the mobile station and the serving base station and at least one of the radio propagation conditions between the mobile station and the at least one of neighboring base stations; means for conveying the metric to the serving base station to assist uplink resource allocation; and means for estimating a composite received signal power level, the composite received signal power level being a power level of a composite signal comprising the reference signal transmission transmitted at the serving base station and the reference signal transmission transmitted at the at least one of neighboring base stations, wherein the metric is derived based on a received power level of the serving base station and an estimate of a residual power level, the residual power level being a difference of the composite received signal power level and the received power level of the serving base station.