The terminal device measures, on a CSI-RS resource of the base station 1, channel information from the base station 1 to the terminal device, and measures, on a CSI-IM resource of the base station 1, interference from the base station 2 and another non-serving base station to transmission of the base station 1, to obtain a CQI when only the base station 1 serves the terminal device. It should be understood that, the base station 1 does not send any signal on the above CSI-IM resource. Therefore, for the base station 1, the CSI-IM resource corresponds to a zero power reference signal, and the base station 2 may send a signal (for example, a physical downlink shared channel (physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH) for another terminal device).
2. CSI report 2: A corresponding transmission mechanism is single-station transmission of the base station 2.
The terminal device measures, on a CSI-RS resource of the base station 2, channel information from the base station 2 to the terminal device, and measures, on a CSI-IM resource of the base station 2, interference from the base station 1 and another non-serving base station to transmission of the base station 2, to obtain a CQI when only the base station 2 serves the terminal device. It should be understood that, the base station 2 does not send any signal on the above CSI-IM resource. Therefore, for the base station 2, the CSI-IM resource corresponds to a zero power reference signal, and the base station 1 may send a signal (for example, a PDSCH for another terminal device).
3. CSI report 3: A corresponding transmission mechanism is NCJT.