Patent ID: 9667391
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L

Claim:
1. A method by a terminal in a communication system, the method comprising: receiving information on at least one process related to channel information, wherein the information comprises a number of the at least one process related to the channel information assigned for a terminal; identifying one or more valid subframes corresponding to the at least one process based on the information on the at least one process, wherein identifying the one or more valid subframes comprises identifying an interval corresponding to the at least one process based on the number of the process related to the channel; identifying whether a reference signal is received on one of the identified one or more valid subframes; generating, when the reference signal is received on the one of the identified one or more valid subframes, channel status information corresponding to the at least one process based on the received reference signal; and transmitting the generated channel status information corresponding to the at least one process to a base station.