Patent ID: 9621308
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A wireless communication terminal comprising: a transceiver coupled to a processor, the processor configured to receive, at the wireless communication terminal, a signal over a plurality of REs including a first transmission from a first base station and a second transmission from a second base station; the processor configured to determine a first subset of a plurality of resource elements (REs) in a signal received at the terminal, the first subset being the first transmission from the first base station, the processor configured to determine a second subset of the plurality of REs that include both the first transmission and the second transmission; the processor configured to determine a first channel state including a first noise variance corresponding to the first subset of the plurality of REs; the processor configured to determine a second channel state including a second noise variance corresponding to the second subset of the plurality of REs; and the processor configured to estimate a hypothetical block error rate (BLER) based on the first channel state, the second channel state, the first noise variance and the second noise variance.