Method and apparatus for mitigating pollution of pilots in a wireless network

A method (800) for wireless communication, comprising: determining (812) whether to carry out cancellation of pilots to a neighboring cell based on the network load, or a required signal to noise and interference SINR of the terminal, or both of them; cancel (814) a common pilot of the neighboring cell to a terminal if a determination to carry out cancellation of pilots is taken; determining (816) the received signal quality of a serving cell at the terminal after canceling the common pilot; determining (818) information CQI quality indicator channel based on the quality of the received signal; and send (820) CQI information to the serving cell.