Patent ID: 8805294

Claim:
A method in a wireless communication network having multiple hubs and a user terminal, the method comprising: designating one of multiple non-serving hubs or a serving hub as a center hub, wherein each hub within the reception range of the user terminal generates a first feedback information including reception quality information, wherein the center hub is a dedicated hub exclusively for feeding feedback information to the user terminal; transmitting the first feedback information corresponding to the user terminal to the center hub by all non-serving hubs within the reception range of the user terminal; combining all the first feedback information to a first combined feedback information by the center hub; transmitting the first combined feedback information to the serving hub by the center hub; combining the first combined feedback information with a second feedback information generated by the serving hub to form a second combined feedback information; and transmitting the second combined feedback information to the user terminal by the serving hub, wherein the first feedback information from the non-serving hubs is transmitted only to the center hub to reduce reception and processing elements at the multiple hubs and the user terminal.