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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2015
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Gary Boudreau, Kanata, CA;
Ronald Casselman, Metcalfe, CA;
Gabriel Wainer, Ottawa, CA;
Baha Uddin Kazi, Ottawa, CA;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for electing a coordination node in a Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) set of cooperating nodes for receiving channel information from wireless devices operating in a wireless network. In one aspect, a method is provided for a node which includes determining a channel quality parameter for the node indicative of a channel quality between the node and the plurality of wireless devices, receiving a first message from a first neighbor node in the CoMP set, the first message including a channel quality parameter for another node (e.g. the first neighbor node) in the CoMP set indicative of a channel quality between the other node and the plurality of wireless devices, and send a second message to the first neighbor node in the CoMP set, the second message identifying the coordination node elected by the node based on the channel quality parameters for the node and the other node.