Patent ID: 9473968
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing a cooperative service by a master base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining first BSs including a downlink (DL) master BS and at least one DL slave BS to provide a cooperative DL service to a mobile station (MS) and second BSs including an uplink (UL) master BS and at least one UL slave BS to provide a cooperative UL service to the MS, based on channel measurement results of the MS and a plurality of BSs; transmitting information related to the first BSs to the MS and the first BSs; and transmitting information related to the second BSs to the MS and the second BSs, wherein determining the first BSs is independent of determining the second BSs, so that the first BSs and the second BSs include same BSs or different BSs.