I/WE CLAIM:

1. An evolved node B (eNB), comprising:
one or more radio frequency (RF) transceivers;
one or more RF antennas; and
logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to select a power offset value for a quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK)-modulated cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI)-based transmission over a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of a cell served by the eNB and send a radio resource control (RRC) connection control message comprising network-assisted interference cancellation and suppression (NAICS) assistance information that identifies the selected power offset value.

2. The eNB of claim 1, the NAICS assistance information to be comprised within a RadioResourceConfigDedicated field of the RRC connection control message.

3. The eNB of claim 1, the power offset value to comprise a value for a power offset parameter that determines a ratio between a PDSCH energy per resource element (EPRE) and a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) EPRE.

4. The eNB of claim 1, the logic to select the power offset value for the QPSK-modulated C-RNTI-based transmission over the PDSCH and a power offset value for a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)-modulated transmission over the PDSCH from among a common set of values.

5. The eNB of claim 1, the logic to select the power offset value for the QPSK-modulated C-RNTI-based transmission over the PDSCH from among a defined set of values comprising -6 dB, -4.77 dB, -3 dB, -1.77 dB, 0 dB, 1 dB, 2 dB, and 3 dB.

6. The eNB of claim 1, the RRC connection control message to comprise an RRCConnectionSetup message, an RRCConnectionReestablishment message, or an RRCConnectionReconfiguration message.

7. User equipment (UE), comprising:
at least one radio frequency (RF) transceiver;
at least one RF antenna; and
logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a radio resource control (RRC) connection control message comprising a RadioResourceConfigDedicated field and perform a radio resource configuration procedure in response to receipt of the RRC connection control message, the RRC connection control message to comprise network-assisted interference cancellation and suppression (NAICS) assistance information that identifies a power offset value for one or more transmissions to the UE over a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of a serving cell of the UE.

8. The UE of claim 7, the one or more transmissions to comprise quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK)-modulated cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI)-based transmissions.

9. The UE of claim 8, the RRC connection control message to comprise information identifying a power offset value for one or more quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)-modulated transmissions to the UE over the PDSCH of the serving cell.

10. The UE of claim 7, the NAICS assistance information to be comprised within a subfield of the RadioResourceConfigDedicated field.

11. The UE of claim 7, the power offset value to be comprised among a defined set of values comprising -6 dB, -4.77 dB, -3 dB, -1.77 dB, 0 dB, 1 dB, 2 dB, and 3 dB.

12. The UE of claim 7, the RRC connection control message to comprise an RRCConnectionSetup message, an RRCConnectionReestablishment message, or an RRCConnectionReconfiguration message.

13. The UE of claim 7, comprising a touchscreen display.

14. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions that, in response to being executed by an evolved node B (eNB), cause the eNB to:
select a first power offset value comprising a power offset value for a quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK)-modulated cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI)-based transmission over a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of a cell served by the eNB;
select a second power offset value comprising a power offset value for a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)-modulated transmission over the PDSCH of the cell served by the eNB; and
transmit a radio resource control (RRC) connection control message containing a RadioResourceConfigDedicated field that comprises the first power offset value and the second power offset value.

15. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim
14, the RadioResourceConfigDedicated field to comprise network-assisted
interference cancellation and suppression (NAICS) assistance information that
identifies the first power offset value.

16. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim
15, the NAICS assistance information to be comprised in a subfield of the
RadioResourceConfigDedicated field.

17. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, comprising instructions that, in response to being executed by the eNB, cause the eNB to select the first power offset value and the second power offset value from among a common set of values.

18. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, comprising instructions that, in response to being executed by the eNB, cause the eNB to select the first power offset value from among a defined set of values comprising -6 dB, -4.77 dB, -3 dB, -1.77 dB, 0 dB, 1 dB, 2 dB, and 3 dB.

19. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, the RRC connection control message to comprise an RRCConnectionSetup message, an RRCConnectionReestablishment message, or an RRCConnectionReconfiguration message.

20. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions that, in response to being executed by user equipment (UE), cause the UE to:
receive a radio resource control (RRC) connection control message; and perform a radio resource configuration procedure based on a RadioResourceConfigDedicated field comprised in the RRC connection control message, the RadioResourceConfigDedicated field to comprise network-assisted interference cancellation and suppression (NAICS) assistance information specifying a power offset value for quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK)-modulated cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI)-based transmissions to the UE over a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of a serving cell of the UE.
21. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim
20, the NAICS assistance information to be comprised within a subfield of the
RadioResourceConfigDedicated field.

22. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, the RadioResourceConfigDedicated field to comprise information identifying a power offset value for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)-modulated transmissions to the UE over the PDSCH of the serving cell.

23. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, the power offset value to be comprised among a defined set of values comprising -6 dB, -4.77 dB, -3 dB, -1.77 dB, 0 dB, 1 dB, 2 dB, and 3 dB.

24. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, the RRC connection control message to comprise an RRCConnectionSetup message, an RRCConnectionReestablishment message, or an RRCConnectionReconfiguration message.

25. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, comprising instructions that, in response to being executed by the UE, cause the UE to apply one or more NACIS inter-cell interference mitigation algorithms based on the power offset value for QPSK-modulated C-RNTI-based transmissions to the UE over the PDSCH of the serving cell of the UE.