Patent ID: 9537613
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: identifying, based upon a criterion identifiable to a non-anchor cell base station, physical resources for transmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment, wherein the HARQ acknowledgment is in response to a received transmission within a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) environment, and wherein the criterion comprises an identifier, associated with a mobile device, that is negotiated between a plurality of base stations including an anchor cell base station and the non-anchor cell base station and maps to the identified physical resources, wherein the identifier comprises at least one of a media access control (MAC) layer identifier or a physical layer identifier, and wherein a cooperation technique is implemented in the CoMP environment, wherein the cooperation technique is one or more of joint transmission via inter-site packet sharing, cooperative beamforming, or cooperative silence; and exchanging the HARQ acknowledgment between the mobile device and the non-anchor cell base station in response to the received transmission via the identified physical resources.