ENHANCED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REPORTING FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION

摘要

The exemplary embodiments provide in one aspect thereof a method that includes, during operation of a user equipment when reporting channel state information for individual ones of a plurality of component carriers, detecting that a channel state information report for a first component carrier is blocked for transmission during an uplink subframe allocated for sending the channel state information report; and sending the channel state information report for the first component carrier in another subframe that is allocated for sending a channel state information report for a second component carrier, where the channel state information report for the first component carrier is sent along with the channel state information report for the second component carrier, The exemplary embodiments provide in another aspect thereof a method that includes, during operation of a base station when receiving channel state information for individual ones of a plurality of component carriers transmitted to a user equipment, detecting that a channel state information report for a first component carrier was not received during an uplink subframe allocated for sending the channel state information report; and receiving the channel state information report for the first component carrier in another subframe that is allocated for receiving a channel state information report for a second component carrier, where the channel state information teport for the first component carrier is received along with the channel state information report for the second component carrier. Various apparatus and means, as well as tangibly embodied computer programs for executing the methods, are also disclosed.