Channel quality reporting for deterministic null scheduling

An apparatus for reporting a channel quality indicator (CQI) in wireless communications, comprising:

• a transceiver configured to receive sub-frames of a downlink channel and transmit the CQI corresponding to a current sub-frame;
• a memory configured to store scheduling information for the downlink channel;
• and
• at least one processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and to the memory via at least one bus, the at least one processor configured to:
• determine that a calculated CQI value to be reported in the current sub-frame is affected by deterministic null scheduling on the downlink channel based on the scheduling information,
• determine a compensatory CQI value, and
• report, via the transceiver, the lesser of the calculated CQI value and the compensatory CQI value in response to determining that the calculated CQI value is affected by the deterministic null scheduling.

An apparatus for reporting a channel quality indicator (CQI), comprising:

• means for determining that a calculated CQI value to be reported in a current sub-frame is affected by deterministic null scheduling on a downlink channel;
• means for determining a compensatory CQI value;
• and
• means for reporting the lesser of the calculated CQI value and the compensatory CQI value in response to determining that the calculated CQI value is affected by the deterministic null scheduling.

A computer-readable medium storing computer executable code for reporting a channel quality indicator (CQI), comprising:

• code for determining that a calculated CQI value to be reported in a current sub-frame is affected by a deterministic null scheduling on a downlink channel;
• code for determining a compensatory CQI value;
• and
• code for reporting the lesser of the calculated CQI value and the compensatory CQI value in response to determining that the calculated CQI value is affected by the deterministic null scheduling.