Patent ID: 9179448
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for reporting Channel State Information (CSI) at a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a first base station, a plurality of configuration information for periodic Rank Indicator (RI) reporting, each of the plurality of configuration information is associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of base stations comprising a serving base station and one or more cooperative base stations; periodically configuring subframes in accordance with each of the plurality of received configuration information; transmitting, to the first base station, RI for a downlink of the first base station through subframes periodically configured according to configuration information associated with the first base station; transmitting, to the first base station, information including a relative channel state between a downlink signal of the first base station and a downlink signal of a second base station through subframes periodically configured according to configuration information associated with the second base station, wherein the UE communicates with both of the first base station and the second base station simultaneously at a certain time point; and receiving data from the first base station and the second base station cooperatively at the certain time point in consideration of the RI for the downlink of the first base station and the information including a relative channel state, wherein each of the plurality of configuration information indicates subframes in which RI for a downlink of each base station is reported periodically, wherein the RI for the downlink of the first base station is same as RI for the downlink of the second base station, wherein the first base station is the serving base station and the second base station is one of the cooperative base stations.