4. Indication information of m CSI-IM resource configurations used to measure interference during CQI calculation is included. Indication information of one CSI-IM resource configuration may be used to determine one CSI-IM resource configuration, and the CSI-IM resource configuration may indicate the following information: configuration parameters of L CSI-IM resources, where L>1. One of the L CSI-IM resources is associated with one of the n NZP CSI-RS resource configurations. In addition, m1 CSI-IM resources occupy a same time-frequency resource. In this specification, the m1 CSI-IM resources are referred to as “same CSI-IM resources”, where m1 is an integer greater than 1.
It should be understood that, that “a CSI-IM resource is associated with an NZP CSI-RS resource configuration” means that when the terminal device calculates a CQI, if (all or a part of) NZP CSI-RS resources in the ith NZP CSI-RS resource are selected to measure channel information, (all or a part of) CSI-IM resources associated with the ith NZP CSI-RS resource are selected to measure interference information, and then the CQI is obtained based on the channel information and the interference information (and/or other information).