in a wireless communication system having a plurality of base stations (401 402 403) and a plurality of mobile user equipment (411 412 413) main service base station CRS resource element (RE) locations during a cell emitting zero energy with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) (i.e. a muted PDSCH). in the first physical resource blocks (PRB 0) the RE position in frequency domain is between 0 to 11 number. is different from the cell ID of all coordinated multipoint reception (CoMP) cell of cell identification (ID) calculates each one antenna port of muted PDSCH RE positions defined in the present invention wherein silence suppression occurs in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.

In a wireless telecommunications system having plural base station (401 402 403) and plural mobile user equipment units (411 412 413) a primary serving base station transmits Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) with zero energy (i.e. muted PDSCH) on the inter-cell CRS Resource Element (RE) location. Within the first Physical Resource Block (PRB 0) the RE positions in the frequency domain are indexed between 0 and 11. The muted PDSCH RE positions per antenna port are computed using the cell identifications (IDs) of all Coordinated Multipoint Reception (CoMP) cells other than the cell ID i. The invention defines the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in which muting occurs.