The transmission of a reference signal, such as a CSI-RS, is enabled while maintaining a power saving effect when performing inter-cell cooperative transmission/reception or the like in a plurality of cells. In order to realize inter-cell cooperative transmission/reception, a CSI-RS which is used for estimating the state of a spatial propagation path of a communication line is generated by a CSI-RS generation unit, and the CSI-RS is disposed in a predetermined subframe by a disposition unit and transmitted. At this time, when a frame has ten subframes #0 to #9, the CSI-RS is disposed in the subframes #4 and #9, which are subframes excluding the subframes #0 and #5 incapable of transmitting a CSI-RS and are subframes other than subframes capable of acting as MBSFN subframes when discontinuous communication (Extended Cell DTX) is performed so as to achieve power saving, and transmitted.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus generally including a processing system configured to generate a first frame including an indication of whether resources are available to be shared with a first one or more wireless nodes, where the apparatus is part of a first basic service set and the first one or more wireless nodes are part of one or more second basic service sets, and a first interface configured to output the first frame for transmission.

Wireless devices may receive channel state information (CSI) measurement resources for a plurality of cells, including cells of a first transmission point and cells of a second transmission point. The wireless device may measure CSI for each cell, and may quantize the measured CSI jointly across the cells. The wireless device may send the jointly quantized CSI to a base station, and the jointly quantized CSI may be used in communications via the first transmission point and the second transmission point.

A method of interference cancellation is proposed. A UE obtains configuration information of a data transmission from a neighboring cell via an interference channel in a mobile communication network. The UE receives radio signals on a set of data resource elements as determined based on the obtained configuration information. The UE then estimates the interference channel corresponding to the data transmission from the neighboring cell based on the received radio signals on the set of data resource elements. Finally, the UE cancels the data transmission from the neighboring cell based on the estimated interference channel.

The present invention provides a method, respective apparatuses, system and computer program product for obtaining channel state information in a coordinated multipoint transmission/reception communication network. The method comprises allocating a first sounding resource to at least one of a plurality of user equipment in a coordinated multi-point transmission/reception communication network for transmitting sounding reference signal to a base station of a serving cell, and allocating a second sounding resource to the at least one user equipment for transmitting sounding reference signal to a base station of an interfering cell, wherein the first and the second sounding resource are different from each other.

Disclosed is a user equipment (UE) apparatus, and method to facilitate beamforming between at least one eNB and at least one UE, comprising the at least one UE including an indication in a message from the UE to the at least one eNB of a type of receiver available for use by the UE to receive a return message from the eNB. There is also disclosed a method in an eNB to facilitate beamforming, and a UE and eNB arranged to carry out the described methods.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a first transmit receive point (TRP), a downlink control information (DCI) communication, the UE being included in a multi-TRP configuration with the first TRP and a second TRP. The UE may determine information unique to the first TRP. The information unique to the first TRP may be at least one of associated with the DCI communication or included in the DCI communication. The UE may generate a downlink scrambling sequence initialization code, associated with the first TRP, based at least in part on the information unique to the first TRP. The UE may generate a downlink scrambling sequence, associated with the first TRP, based at least in part on the downlink scrambling sequence initialization code associated with the first TRP. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A management apparatus in a wireless communication system including multiple transmission points transmitting reference signals, the management apparatus managing the transmission points, and a mobile station, includes: a management unit for managing first and second clusters generated by grouping one or more transmission points used to communicate with the mobile station among the multiple transmission points; and a control unit for controlling allocation of the reference signals transmitted from the multiple transmission points in the first and second clusters. The management unit detects that multiple cells formed by the transmission points in the first cluster overlap some of multiple cells formed by the transmission points in the second cluster. When the management unit detects the overlap, the control unit allocates the orthogonal reference signals to the multiple cells formed by the transmission points in the first cluster and the multiple cells formed by the transmission points in the second cluster.

A communication system, a base station and a communication control method are provided, which are capable of cooperatively transmitting data from a plurality of base stations to a plurality of communication terminals using a same radio resource. A first base station acquires a value of an interference suppression parameter that is applied to a transmission signal from the first base station so as to suppress interference from a second base station in a first communication terminal, when the first communication terminal locates in a cell border area. The second base station duplicates a desired data for a second communication terminal located in a cell of the second base station, and transmits the duplicated desired data to the first base station. The first base station generates a transmission signal based on the value of the interference suppression parameter, the desired data for the first communication terminal, the desired data for the second communication terminal received from the second base station and a control information on data cooperative transmission, and the second base station generates a transmission signal of the desired data for the second communication terminal. Each of the base stations cooperatively transmits the transmission signal at a predetermined data cooperative transmission timing.

A communication apparatus comprises a generator that generates frequency resource position information corresponding to a first information which is based on the communication quality information received from user equipments, the frequency resource position information indicating validity or invalidity of the first information for each frequency resource, and a transmitter that transmits the first information, the frequency resource position information and a cell ID which the frequency resource position is applied, to another communication apparatus via a backhaul.