REFERENCE SIGNAL POWER MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN A NETWORK WITH GEOGRAPHICALLY SEPARATED ANTENNA PORTS

摘要

Devices and methods for improving performance in a network with geographically separated antenna ports based on determining arid reporting reference signal power from a communication device to a base station are provided. In one aspect, the difference between received reference signal power values is used in determining a reported reference signal power value, such as reference signal received power (RSRP) in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) network including geographically separated antenna ports transmitting on cell-specific reference signal (CBS) ports 0 and 1. Devices and methods for measuring and reporting per-port reference signal power values are provided.