An apparatus to be employed by a user equipment, the apparatus comprising: a communications module configured to: receive, via radio resource signaling, RRC, common reference signal, CRS, parameters associated with individual enhanced Node Bs, eNBs, (104, 112, 116) of a coordinated multipoint, CoMP, measurement set including a plurality of eNBs, wherein a plurality of eNBs in a CoMP measurement set include a first eNB and a second eNB (112,116), wherein the eNBs of the CoMP measurement set are associated with respective transmission point indexes, and wherein the CRS parameters include a number of CRS antenna ports and a CRS frequency shift of the individual eNBs; and receive downlink control information, DCI, message indicating, based on a transmission point index associated with the first eNB of the CoMP measurement set, that the first eNB is selected to communicate with the UE; and a mapping module coupled with the communications module and configured to produce a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, mapping pattern based on the received CRS parameters associated with the first eNB; wherein the CRS parameters are received from the second eNB (112, 116) of the CoMP measurement set, and wherein the transmission point index is received from the first or the second eNB. a communications module configured to: receive, via radio resource signaling, RRC, common reference signal, CRS, parameters associated with individual enhanced Node Bs, eNBs, (104, 112, 116) of a coordinated multipoint, CoMP, measurement set including a plurality of eNBs, wherein a plurality of eNBs in a CoMP measurement set include a first eNB and a second eNB (112,116), wherein the eNBs of the CoMP measurement set are associated with respective transmission point indexes, and wherein the CRS parameters include a number of CRS antenna ports and a CRS frequency shift of the individual eNBs; and receive downlink control information, DCI, message indicating, based on a transmission point index associated with the first eNB of the CoMP measurement set, that the first eNB is selected to communicate with the UE; and receive, via radio resource signaling, RRC, common reference signal, CRS, parameters associated with individual enhanced Node Bs, eNBs, (104, 112, 116) of a coordinated multipoint, CoMP, measurement set including a plurality of eNBs, wherein a plurality of eNBs in a CoMP measurement set include a first eNB and a second eNB (112,116), wherein the eNBs of the CoMP measurement set are associated with respective transmission point indexes, and wherein the CRS parameters include a number of CRS antenna ports and a CRS frequency shift of the individual eNBs; and receive downlink control information, DCI, message indicating, based on a transmission point index associated with the first eNB of the CoMP measurement set, that the first eNB is selected to communicate with the UE; and a mapping module coupled with the communications module and configured to produce a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, mapping pattern based on the received CRS parameters associated with the first eNB; wherein the CRS parameters are received from the second eNB (112, 116) of the CoMP measurement set, and wherein the transmission point index is received from the first or the second eNB.