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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2017
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Narayan Prasad, Wyncote, PA (US);
Mohammad Khojastepour, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Mustafa Arslan, Princeton, NJ (US);
Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Howell, NJ (US);
Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a wireless communications system including a first transmission point and a second transmission point, a wireless communications method implemented in the first transmission point supporting coordinated multi-point transmission and reception (CoMP) is disclosed. The wireless communications method comprises transmitting to the second transmission point one or more CoMP hypothesis sets, and transmitting to the second transmission point a benefit metric corresponding to each CoMP hypothesis set, wherein the benefit metric can be a negative value. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.