Patent ID: 9590775
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A radio communication apparatus to operate as a terminal station, the radio communication apparatus comprising: a reference signal transmission unit configured to transmit a reference signal to be measured by at least one of a plurality of base stations to decide on a coordinating group of base stations, from among the plurality of base stations, for coordinated multi point reception, by a first radio resource allocated to the radio communication apparatus for communication with at least one base station of the coordinating group of base stations; and a user data transmission unit configured to transmit user data by a second radio resource allocated to the radio communication apparatus, wherein a time interval based on the measured reference signal is placed between the transmission of the reference signal and the transmission of the user data; and wherein the first radio resource and the second radio resource are reserved with the at least one base station of the coordinating group of base stations for the coordinated multi point reception.