Patent ID: 8320967

Claim:
A method performed at a base station of a wireless communication system to wirelessly communicate with a user equipment (UE), the base station being capable of transmitting over multiple antennas, the method comprising: determining whether the UE is located within a threshold edge distance from an edge of a cell corresponding to the base station, wherein the step of determining whether the UE is located within the threshold edge distance from the edge of the cell comprises: receiving a neighbor report from the UE regarding one or more other base stations neighboring the base station detected by the UE; determining a number of neighboring base stations based on the neighbor report; determining whether the number of neighboring base stations is higher than a threshold neighbors number; determining that the UE is located within the threshold edge distance when the number of neighboring base stations is determined to be higher than the threshold neighbors number; and determining that the UE is not located within the threshold edge distance when the number of neighboring base stations is not determined to be higher than the threshold neighbors number; and choosing diversity for transmission from the base station to the UE when the UE is determined to be located within the threshold edge distance.