Signalling for Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission and Reception (CoMP)

A wireless communication method implemented in a first base station, the wireless communication method comprising:

• communicating with a user equipment;
• and
• transmitting, to a second base station, a Coordinated Multi-Point transmission (CoMP) information, which the CoMP information comprises a table described below:
• IE/Group Name
• Presence
• Range
• CoMP Information Item
• 1 . . . <maxnoofCoMPInformation>
• >CoMP Hypothesis Set
• M
• >Benefit Metric
• M
• Start SFN
• Start Subframe Index
• where M denotes mandatory, and maxnoofCoMPinformation denotes a Maximum number of CoMP Hypothesis sets.

A first base station comprising:

• a controller configured to communicate with a user equipment;
• and
• a transmission interface configured to transmit, to a second base station, a Coordinated Multi-Point transmission (CoMP) information, which the CoMP information comprises a table described below:
• IE/Group Name
• Presence
• Range
• CoMP Information Item
• 1 . . . <maxnoofCoMPInformation>
• >CoMP Hypothesis Set
• M
• >Benefit Metric
• M
• Start SFN
• Start Subframe Index
• where M denotes mandatory, and maxnoofCoMPinformation denotes a Maximum number of CoMP Hypothesis sets.

A wireless communication system comprising:

• a first base station;
• and
• a second base station configured to transmit, to the first base station, a Coordinated Multi-Point transmission (CoMP) information, which the CoMP information comprises a table described below:
• IE/Group Name
• Presence
• Range
• CoMP Information
• 1 . . . <maxnoofCoMPInformation>
• Item
• >CoMP Hypothesis
• M
• Set
• >Benefit Metric
• M
• Start SFN
• Start Subframe Index
• where M denotes mandatory, and maxnoofCoMPinformation denotes a Maximum number of CoMP Hypothesis sets.