Patent ID: 8369885

Claim:
A method for determining a power ratio of Resource Elements (REs) transmitted by a Mobile Station (MS), the method comprising: determining a type of multiplexing used for multiplexing the Dedicated Reference Signals (DRS) REs; if the type of multiplexing is determined to be one of Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM), determining if the number of DRSs transmitted by the BS is known; if the number of transmitted DRSs is known, setting the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) data to DRS power ratio to correspond to the number of transmitted DRSs; and if the number of transmitted DRSs is not known, determining if the maximum number of DRSs that may be transmitted is known; if the maximum number of DRSs that may be transmitted is known: setting the power ratio to correspond to a maximum number of DRSs that may be transmitted; and otherwise setting the power ratio to 0 dB.