Patent ID: 8259698

Claim:
A method of transmitting channel information in a time division duplex (TDD) wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, at a user equipment from a base station, downlink data included in a radio frame, wherein the radio frame includes two subframes, each of the two subframes including one uplink time slot and six downlink time slots, each of the six downlink time slots including two data symbols and a midamble, wherein the downlink data is included in a plurality of downlink time slots, of the six downlink time slots, and wherein the downlink data is received through a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH); obtaining, at the user equipment, received signal strength indications (RSSIs) of a plurality of midambles for the plurality of downlink time slots according to the equation A i =√{square root over (I 2 +Q 2 )}, wherein A i denotes an RSSI of a midamble for an i th downlink time slot of the plurality of downlink time slots, wherein I denotes an in-phase component of the midamble for the i th downlink time slot, and wherein Q denotes a quadrature-phase component of the midamble for the i th downlink time slot; obtaining, at the user equipment, a moving average of the RSSIs of the plurality of midambles according to the equation M = 1 m ⁢ ∑ i = 0 m - 1 ⁢ ⁢ A i , wherein M denotes the moving average of the RSSIs of the plurality of midambles, and wherein m denotes a number of the plurality of downlink time slots; obtaining, at the user equipment, a dispersion of the RSSIs of the plurality of downlink time slots according to the equation v 2 = 1 m ⁢ ∑ i = 0 m - 1 ⁢ ⁢ ( M - A i ) 2 , wherein v denotes the dispersion of the RSSIs of the plurality of downlink time slots; generating, at the user equipment, a channel quality indicator (CQI) including a channel variation indicating temporal changes of downlink channel condition, the channel variation being the dispersion of the RSSIs of the plurality of midambles for the plurality of downlink time slots; and transmitting, at the user equipment, the CQI to the base station through a high speed shared information channel (HS-SICH) which is a shared information channel for the HS-DSCH, wherein the channel variation and a recommended transport block size (RTBS) related to a coding scheme are jointly coded in the CQI.