Patent ID: 8270516

Claim:
A terminal for use in a wireless communication network, said terminal being arranged to receive at least a first and a second pilot signal from at least one transmitting node, each pilot signal comprising at least one reference signal transmitted from at least one transmit antenna, said terminal comprising: receiving means arranged to receive the pilot signals; an estimating means arranged to estimate at least a first and a second transmit covariance matrix of at least a first and a second MIMO channel associated with the at least first and second pilot signals, respectively, each MIMO channel defining properties of at least a possible communication link, determining means arranged to determine a parameter related to the pathloss for the at least first and second MIMO channel, between the at least one transmitting node and the terminal based on the at least first and second transmit covariance matrices respectively in dependence of a processing rule, which is a general function of the transmit covariance matrix transmitting means arranged to transmit control information to a control node in the network in dependence of the pathloss parameters determined for the at least two possible communication links.