Patent ID: 8488520
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A base station, for use in a wireless communication system, said base station comprising: a report receiving unit operable to receive from a user equipment of the wireless communication system a report of a downlink received signal quality produced by the user equipment the report including received signal quality without transforming the received signal quality into a modulation and coding scheme when the transformation of the received signal quality into the modulation and coding scheme is not conducted for reporting and including a selected modulation and coding scheme, when a selection of the modulation and coding scheme is conducted for reporting based on the received signal quality by the user equipment; and a unit to transmit modulation and coding scheme information to the user equipment even if the user equipment reports the modulation and coding scheme to the base station, the modulation and coding scheme information indicating which modulation and coding scheme is adopted to data transmission from the base station to the user equipment.