Enhanced channel quality indication reports

An apparatus, comprising:

• a wireless receiver;
• a wireless transmitter;
• a measurement unit configurable to make measurements of a received channel;
• and
• a reporting unit configurable to prepare and send, via said wireless transmitter, a channel quality report that comprises at least one resource block-specific report indicative of a value of a channel quality metric over a bandwidth x, and that further comprises an additional report indicative of the value of the channel quality metric over a bandwidthy, where y is greater than x.

An apparatus, comprising:

• means for making measurements of a received channel;
• means for composing a channel quality report that comprises at least one resource block-specific report indicative of a value of a channel quality metric over a bandwidth x, and
• that further comprises an additional report indicative of the value of the channel quality metric over a bandwidth y, where y is greater than x;
• and
• means for transmitting the channel quality report to a wireless network node for use in making resource scheduling decisions;
• where the additional channel quality report is indicative of a difference between a mean value of a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of physical resource blocks found to exceed a reporting threshold and a mean value of the SINR over the measurement bandwidth y.

An apparatus, comprising:

• means for receiving a channel quality report from a mobile apparatus, the channel quality report comprising at least one resource block-specific report indicative of a value of a channel quality metric over a bandwidth x, and further comprising an additional report indicative of the value of the channel quality metric over a bandwidth y, where y is greater than x;
• and
• means for using one or both reports when scheduling resources for a user equipment;
• where the additional channel quality report is indicative of a difference between a mean value of a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of physical resource blocks found by the mobile apparatus to exceed a reporting threshold and a mean value of the SINR over the measurement bandwidth y.