Patent ID: 8744472

Claim:
Method for reporting channel quality information in a wireless telecommunication network, wherein said network comprises a radio base station in wireless communication with a plurality of user equipment by means of respective user transmission channels, said method being characterized in that said radio base station detects a coherence bandwidth associated to a total transmission channel, said total transmission channel comprising the user transmission channels of said plurality of user equipment; selects one reporting technique for reporting channel quality information among a plurality of available reporting techniques, the selection being based on said coherence bandwidth; transmits a first message to each of said plurality of user equipment, said message reporting an indication of the selected reporting technique; wherein said available reporting techniques comprise a MAB_CQI reporting technique, said MAB_CQI reporting technique comprising the following set of values: a channel quality indicator, an index representing a starting resource block, and a number of adjacent resource blocks, wherein said resource blocks are basic scheduling units of said network, wherein said channel quality indicator is calculated over a resource block interval defined by said starting resource block and said number of adjacent resource blocks.