Patent ID: 8477705
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for wireless communications by a non-serving access point (AP) of a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) set, comprising: receiving, from a serving access point (AP) of the CoMP set, information regarding uplink resources allocated to a first user equipment (UE) for acknowledgement of a joint CoMP transmission sent from a plurality of APs in the CoMP set; sending a downlink transmission to the first UE as part of the joint CoMP transmission; and taking one or more actions, based on the information received from the serving AP, to reduce interference with the acknowledgement of the joint CoMP transmission from the first UE, wherein the one or more actions include sending downlink transmissions to one or more UEs with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) disabled, and wherein the joint CoMP transmission includes downlink transmissions to the one or more UEs from the serving AP with HARQ enabled.