Patent ID: 8406171

Claim:
A coordinated multipoint transmitter for use with a network MIMO super-cell, comprising: a coordination unit configured to provide joint link processing to coordinate a multipoint transmission corresponding to a set of transmission points, wherein the joint link processing provides a joint link adaptation for a portion of the set of transmission points that is based on: channel quality indicator (“CQI”); precoding matrix indicator (“PMI”); and rank indicator (“RI”), wherein the coordination unit receives the joint link CQI, PMI and RI to the super-cell for each of the possible combinations of transmitters of the super cell; dynamically adapts the subset of transmitters taken from integer “N” available transmitters to optimize the average throughput across all the integer “N” cells based on an instantaneous channel based on said link quality indicator, therefore dynamically adapt said super cell, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the multipoint transmission using the set of transmission points of said super-cell.