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, 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 , 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 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, 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 , 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, 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 , 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 of the CoMP measurement set, and wherein the transmission point index is received from the first or the second eNB. <EOS>