Techniques for determining power offsets of a physical downlink shared channel

At least one machine readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed on a system for user equipment (UE) capable of operating in compliance with one or more or more 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standards including LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), causes the system to:

• receive power offset information in a radio resource control (RRC) information element (IE) for a serving physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and/or a co-scheduled PDSCH;
• receive downlink control information indicating modulation information for the serving PDSCH;
• and
• determine, for one or more resource blocks (RBs), a first detected power offset value for the serving PDSCH and a second detected power offset value for the co-scheduled PDSCH based on the power offset or the modulation information.

An apparatus comprising:

• logic, at least a portion of the logic in hardware, the logic located with an evolved Node B (eNB) capable of operating in compliance with one or more 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standards including LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), the logic to:
• send power offset information in a radio resource control (RRC) information element (IE) to a user equipment (UE), the power offset information for a serving physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and/or a co-scheduled PDSCH;
• send downlink control information that indicates modulation information for the serving PDSCH;
• and
• cause data to be transmitted via the serving PDSCH to the UE using same time and frequency resources as used for the co-scheduled PDSCH, the UE to determine, for one or more resource blocks (RBs), a first detected power offset value for the serving PDSCH and a second detected power offset value for the co-scheduled PDSCH based on the power offset or the modulation information.

A method comprising:

• sending, at an evolved Node B (eNB) capable of operating in compliance with one or more 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standards including LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), power offset information in a radio resource control (RRC) information element (IE) to a user equipment (UE), the power offset information for a serving physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and/or a co-scheduled PDSCH;
• sending downlink control information indicating modulation information for the serving PDSCH;
• and
• causing data to be transmitted via the serving PDSCH to the UE using same time and frequency resources as used for the co-scheduled PDSCH, the UE to determine, for one or more resource blocks (RBs), a first detected power offset value for the serving PDSCH and a second detected power offset value for the co-scheduled PDSCH based on the power offset or the modulation information.