A wireless terminal included in an E-UTRA access network, comprising: a receiver coupled to one or more antennas; and a processor coupled to the receiver, the processor being configured to: determine a channel power estimation Es for a carrier signal based on Channel State Information Reference Signals (CSI-RS) received by the receiver, the carrier signal being an additional carrier without the presence of a Cell-specific Reference Signal transmitted in a wireless network by a node providing wireless access to the wireless network wherein the channel power estimation is determined by averaging a channel power from each transmit antenna port while assuming Maximal Ratio Combining at the receiver antenna and the channel power estimation is determined as E S = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N r ∑ j = 1 N t | H i, j | 2 in which N is the number of resource blocks (RBs) of the E-UTRA carrier RSSI measurement bandwidth, H is the channel response between j th transmit antenna and i th receive antenna, N r is the tolal number of receive antennas at UE, N t is the total number of transmit antennas at the eNB, i is the receive antenna index, and j is the transmit antenna index; and determine a noise plus interference I + N for the carrier signal based on a muted CSI-RS, and calculate a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement or a Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) measurement, or a combination thereof, based at least in part on the channel power estimation and the noise plus interference. a receiver coupled to one or more antennas; and a processor coupled to the receiver, the processor being configured to: determine a channel power estimation Es for a carrier signal based on Channel State Information Reference Signals (CSI-RS) received by the receiver, the carrier signal being an additional carrier without the presence of a Cell-specific Reference Signal transmitted in a wireless network by a node providing wireless access to the wireless network wherein the channel power estimation is determined by averaging a channel power from each transmit antenna port while assuming Maximal Ratio Combining at the receiver antenna and the channel power estimation is determined as E S = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N r ∑ j = 1 N t | H i, j | 2 in which N is the number of resource blocks (RBs) of the E-UTRA carrier RSSI measurement bandwidth, H is the channel response between j th transmit antenna and i th receive antenna, N r is the tolal number of receive antennas at UE, N t is the total number of transmit antennas at the eNB, i is the receive antenna index, and j is the transmit antenna index; and determine a noise plus interference I + N for the carrier signal based on a muted CSI-RS, and calculate a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement or a Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) measurement, or a combination thereof, based at least in part on the channel power estimation and the noise plus interference. determine a channel power estimation Es for a carrier signal based on Channel State Information Reference Signals (CSI-RS) received by the receiver, the carrier signal being an additional carrier without the presence of a Cell-specific Reference Signal transmitted in a wireless network by a node providing wireless access to the wireless network wherein the channel power estimation is determined by averaging a channel power from each transmit antenna port while assuming Maximal Ratio Combining at the receiver antenna and the channel power estimation is determined as E S = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N r ∑ j = 1 N t | H i, j | 2 in which N is the number of resource blocks (RBs) of the E-UTRA carrier RSSI measurement bandwidth, H is the channel response between j th transmit antenna and i th receive antenna, N r is the tolal number of receive antennas at UE, N t is the total number of transmit antennas at the eNB, i is the receive antenna index, and j is the transmit antenna index; and determine a noise plus interference I + N for the carrier signal based on a muted CSI-RS, and calculate a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement or a Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) measurement, or a combination thereof, based at least in part on the channel power estimation and the noise plus interference.