A VARIABLE COORDINATION PATTERN APPROACH FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN MULTI-CELL OR MULTI-ANTENNA ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for verifying coordination patterns to improve performance in a multi-cell or multi-antenna environment. In one embodiment, the method comprises storing a set of predefined and different coordination patterns, where each coordination pattern specifies entities in the plurality of cells that are to coordinated together in their transmissions in each cluster of cells on different transmission resources defined for example in one or both time and frequency; and varying entities that coordinate with each other in their transmissions in each cluster of cells over transmission resources according to the predefined coordination patterns.