Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control information in wireless communication system

• US 10,104,647 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2013
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jeong, Cheol, Park, Jeong-Ho, Seol, Ji-Yun, Yu, Hyun-Kyu, Cho, Jae-Weon
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Chirag
• Assistant Examiner(s): Reddivalam, Srinivasa
• Application Number:
  US13/946,825
• Publication Number:
  US 20140023006A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,915 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

A method transmits control information in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting a first carrier signal including first control information; and transmitting a second carrier signal including at least one of second control information and data. The first control information is information indicating whether the second control information is carried on the second carrier signal, and the second control information is scheduling information for the data, and is generated to correspond to the first control information.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

determining an amount of control information to be included in a first carrier signal;

transmitting the first carrier signal including first control information; and

transmitting a second carrier signal including data, wherein the second carrier signal further includes second control information if a number of bits within the first carrier signal is not sufficient for the determined amount of control information;

wherein the first control information includes information indicating whether the second control information is carried on the second carrier signal or not; and

wherein the second control information includes scheduling information for the data if the second control information is included in the second carrier signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first control information includes at least one of a ‘

Carrier indicator’

field indicating whether the second carrier signal is transmitted, and an ‘

Additional control info flag’

field indicating whether the second control information is transmitted.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first control information includes at least one of a ‘

Carrier indicator’

field indicating whether the second carrier signal is transmitted, and a ‘

location indication’

field indicating a location where the second control information is allocated in the second carrier signal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second carrier signal further includes a beam training region in which an optimal pair of a transmit beam of a transmitter and a receive beam of a receiver are searched.

5. An apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a controller configured to determine an amount of control information to be included in a first carrier signal, to configure the first carrier signal including first control information, and to configure a second carrier signal including data, wherein the second carrier signal further includes second control information if a number of bits within the first carrier signal is not sufficient for the determined amount of control information; and

a transceiver configured to transmit the first carrier signal and the second carrier signal;

wherein the first control information includes information indicating whether the second control information is carried on the second carrier signal or not; and

wherein the second control information includes scheduling information for the data if the second control information is included in the second carrier signal.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first control information includes at least one of a ‘

Carrier indicator’

field indicating whether the second carrier signal is transmitted or an ‘

Additional control info flag’

field indicating whether the second control information is transmitted.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first control information includes at least one of a ‘

Carrier indicator’

field indicating whether the second carrier signal is transmitted or a ‘

location indication’

field indicating a location of where the second control information is allocated in the second carrier signal.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the second carrier signal further includes a beam training region in which an optimal pair of a transmit beam of a transmitter and a receive beam of a receiver are searched.