| 摘要 |
A user equipment, UE, determines n neighbor cells suitable for multipoint joint data communication with the UE. The determination may involve the UE receiving a neighbour cell list (NCL) and threshold 202 and, for each cell in the NCL, comparing received signal strength or another quality metric with the threshold 206. The UE obtains common channel configurations from each of a serving cell and n neighbor cells (204-1 to 204-3), from which the UE creates a combined channel configuration 208 and utilizes it for multipoint communications with those cells. The respective channel configurations may be obtained from the respective cells' system information broadcasts. The UE may report, in uplink signaling 210, the n neighbor cells which are suitable for multipoint communication with the UE. The invention may be used to provide multipoint reception, at a UE in the CELL-FACH state, from multiple network cells. See also co-pending application with publication number GB2490370. The system disclosed herein seems to be applicable to coordinated multipoint (CoMP) communications.
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