Patent ID: 9628215
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04J,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a user equipment, a signal comprising cell-specific reference signals from a plurality of cells; measuring by the user equipment one or more cell-specific reference signals from one of the plurality of cells to determine one or more measured results; performing, by the user equipment and based on the one or more measured results meeting one or more first criteria, interference cancelation to cancel the one or more cell-specific reference signals corresponding to the one cell from the signal, wherein performing the interference cancelation for a selected cell comprises creating a cell-specific reference signal waveform for the selected cell, applying gain to the created cell-specific reference signal waveform to create a gain-adjusted cell-specific reference signal waveform, and adding the gain-adjusted cell-specific reference signal waveform to the received signal to create a resultant signal; performing, by the user equipment, the measuring and the performing the interference cancelation for additional ones of the plurality of cells until one or more second criteria are met; and using measured cell-specific reference signals having their interference canceled to reduce an effect of interference from corresponding cells on communications between a user equipment and a base station, wherein the using comprises performing analog to digital conversion on the resultant signal.