Method, device and system for transmitting enhanced downlink control channel

• US 10,277,372 B2
• Filed: 02/18/2014
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wu, Qiang, Qian, Yiqun, Li, Yang, Liu, Jianghua
• Primary Examiner(s): Yao, Kwang B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bokhari, Syed M
• Application Number:
  US14/182,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20140233474A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,897 Days
• Field of Search: 370329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0016 Time-frequency-code
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0026 Division using four or more dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method, a device and a system for transmitting an enhanced downlink control channel, which belong to the communications field. The method for sending an enhanced downlink control channel includes: presetting a multiplexing unit, where the multiplexing unit includes at least one resource block pair, and the at least one resource block pair includes E-PDCCH resources and DM RS resources, and the E-PDCCH resources include multiple control channel elements; sending at least one E-PDCCH corresponding to at least one UE in at least one control channel element of the multiplexing unit, and sending the DM RS corresponding to the at least one UE. The present invention reduces the granularity of an enhanced downlink control channel, saves resources and enhances the downlink control channel, thereby providing more control channels for the UE to use.

Claims

1. A method for sending an enhanced downlink control channel, comprising:

presetting a multiplexing unit, wherein the multiplexing unit comprises at least one resource block pair, the at least one resource block pair comprises enhanced downlink control channel E-PDCCH resources and demodulation reference DM RS resources, and the E-PDCCH resources comprise multiple control channel elements, and an allocation pattern of the control channel elements in the multiplexing unit is bound to a DM RS port;

configuring a binding relationship between the DM RS port and the allocation pattern of the multiple control channel elements of the multiplexing unit in advance, wherein the binding relationship is also configured at a UE side; and

sending at least one E-PDCCH corresponding to at least one user equipment UE in at least one control channel element of the preset multiplexing unit, and sending a DM RS corresponding to the at least one UE on the DM RS resources of the preset multiplexing unit,

wherein the at least one resource block pair is a precoding resource block group PRG, and the number of resource blocks RBs in the PRG is decided by system bandwidth.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sending the at least one E-PDCCH corresponding to the at least one user equipment UE in the at least one control channel element of the preset multiplexing unit comprises:

when the at least one UE is multiple UEs, sending E-PDCCHs corresponding to the multiple UEs in at least two control channel elements in the multiple control channel elements according to time-division multiplexing, or frequency-division multiplexing, or time-frequency multiplexing.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the sending the DM RS corresponding to the at least one UE, comprises:

for each UE in the at least one UE, sending the DM RS of the UE on all DM RS time-frequency resources corresponding to the DM RS port allocated to the UE in the multiplexing unit;

or,

sending, on the DM RS resources in the resource block pair carrying the E-PDCCH of the UE, the DM RS of the UE.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sending the DM RS corresponding to the at least one UE, comprises:

for each UE in the at least one UE, sending the DM RS of the UE on all DM RS time-frequency resources corresponding to the DM RS port allocated to the UE in the preset multiplexing unit;

or,

sending, on the DM RS resources in the resource block pair carrying the E-PDCCH of the UE, the DM RS of the UE.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

when the at least one UE is multiple UEs, allocating different DM RS ports to the multiple UEs, or allocating the same DM RS port to at least two UEs in the multiple UEs.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the sending, when different DM RS ports are allocated to the multiple UEs, the DM RS corresponding to the at least one UE, comprises:

sending the DM RSs of the multiple UEs according to frequency-division multiplexing, code-division multiplexing or frequency-division and code-division multiplexing.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

notifying the DM RS ports allocated to the multiple UEs to the multiple UEs through radio resource control RRC signaling.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the multiple control channel elements are obtained after the E-PDCCH resources are divided according to time-division multiplexing, or frequency-division multiplexing, or time-frequency multiplexing.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the multiplexing unit is formed by resources other than downlink control channel PDCCH resources, common reference signal CRS resources and channel-state information reference signal CSI RS resources in the at least one resource block pair.

10. A method for receiving an enhanced downlink control channel, comprising:

receiving a signal on a multiplexing unit, wherein the multiplexing unit comprises at least one resource block pair, the at least one resource block pair comprises enhanced downlink control channel E-PDCCH resources and demodulation reference DM RS resources, and the E-PDCCH resources comprise multiple control channel elements, and an allocation pattern of the control channel elements in the multiplexing unit is bound to a DM RS port;

configuring a binding relationship between the DM RS port and the allocation pattern of the control channel elements of the multiplexing unit in advance, wherein the binding relationship is also configured at a UE side;

performing channel estimation by using all DM RSs received on the multiplexing unit; and

demodulating the signal received on the E-PDCCH resources in the multiplexing unit by using a result of the channel estimation, so as to obtain an E-PDCCH;

wherein the at least one resource block pair is a precoding resource block group PRG, and the number of resource blocks RBs in the PRG is decided by system bandwidth.

11. A base station, comprising:

at least one memory to store instructions; and

at least one processor to execute the instructions to configure the base station to;

preset a multiplexing unit, wherein the multiplexing unit comprises at least one resource b lock pair, the at least one resource block pair comprises enhanced downlink control channel E-PDCCH resources and demodulation reference DM RS resources, and the E-PDCCH resources comprise multiple control channel elements, and an allocation pattern of the control channel elements in the multiplexing unit is bound to a DM RS port;

configure a binding relationship between the DM RS port and the allocation pattern of the control channel elements of the multiplexing unit in advance, wherein the binding relationship is also configured at a UE side; and

send at least one E-PDCCH corresponding to at least one user equipment UE in at least one control channel element of the preset multiplexing unit, and send a DM RS corresponding to the at least one UE on the DM RS resources of the preset multiplexing unit,

wherein the at least one resource block pair is a precoding resource block group PRG, and the number of resource blocks RBs in the PRG is decided by system bandwidth.

12. The base station according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor to execute the instructions to further configure the base station to:

when the at least one UE is multiple UEs, send E-PDCCHs corresponding to the multiple UEs in at least two control channel elements in the multiple control channel elements according to time-division multiplexing, or frequency-division multiplexing, or time-frequency multiplexing.

13. The base station according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor to execute the instructions to further configure the base station to:

for each UE in the at least one UE, send the DM RS of the UE on all DM RS time-frequency resources corresponding to the DM RS port allocated to the UE in the preset multiplexing unit;

or, send, on the DM RS resources in the resource block pair carrying the E-PDCCH of the UE, the DM RS of the UE.

14. The base station according to claim 11, wherein the base station is further configured to:

when the at least one UE is multiple UEs, allocate different DM RS ports to the multiple UEs, or allocate the same DM RS port to at least two UEs in the multiple UEs.

15. The base station according to claim 14, wherein the at least one processor to execute the instructions to further configure the base station to:

when the base station allocates different DM RS ports to the multiple UEs, the base station is further configured to send the DM RSs of the multiple UEs according to frequency-division multiplexing, code-division multiplexing or frequency-division and code-division multiplexing.

16. The base station according to claim 14, wherein base station is further configured to notify the DM RS ports allocated to the multiple UEs to the multiple UEs through radio resource control RRC signaling.

17. The base station according to claim 11, wherein base station is configured to obtain the multiple control channel elements by dividing the E-PDCCH resources according to time-division multiplexing, or frequency-division multiplexing, or time-frequency multiplexing.

18. A user equipment UE, comprising:

at least one memory to store instructions; and

at least one processor to execute the instructions to configure the UE to;

receive a signal in a multiplexing unit, wherein the multiplexing unit comprises at least one resource block pair, the at least one resource block pair comprises enhanced downlink control channel E-PDCCH resources and demodulation reference DM RS resources, and the E-PDCCH resources comprise multiple control channel elements, and an allocation pattern of the control channel elements in the multiplexing unit is bound to a DM RS port;

configure a binding relationship between the DM RS port and the allocation pattern of the control channel elements of the multiplexing unit in advance, wherein the binding relationship is also configured at a base station side; and

demodulate the signal received on the E-PDCCH resources in the multiplexing unit by using a result of the channel estimation, so as to obtain an E-PDCCH,

wherein the at least one resource block pair is a precoding resource block group PRG, and the number of resource blocks RBs in the PRG is decided by system bandwidth.

19. A method for sending an enhanced downlink control channel, comprising:

presetting a multiplexing unit, wherein the multiplexing unit comprises at least one resource block pair, the at least one resource block pair comprises enhanced downlink control channel E-PDCCH resources and demodulation reference DM RS resources, the E-PDCCH resources comprise multiple control channel elements, and an allocation pattern of the control channel elements in the multiplexing unit is bound to a DM RS port;

configure a binding relationship between the DM RS port and the allocation pattern of the multiple control channel elements of the multiplexing unit in advance, wherein the binding relationship is configured at a base station side and at a UE side; and

sending at least one E-PDCCH corresponding to at least one user equipment UE in at least one control channel element of the preset multiplexing unit, and sending a DM RS corresponding to the at least one UE on the DM RS resources of the preset multiplexing unit.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the sending the at least one E-PDCCH corresponding to the at least one user equipment UE in the at least one control channel element of the preset multiplexing unit comprises:

when the at least one UE is multiple UEs, sending E-PDCCHs corresponding to the multiple UEs in at least two control channel elements in the multiple control channel elements according to time-division multiplexing, or frequency-division multiplexing, or time-frequency multiplexing.

21. The method according to claim 19, wherein the sending the DM RS corresponding to the at least one UE comprises:

sending, on the DM RS resources in the resource block pair carrying the E-PDCCH of the UE, the DM RS of the UE.

22. The method according to claim 19, wherein

the multiplexing unit is formed by resources other than downlink control channel PDCCH resources, common reference signal CRS resources and channel-state information reference signal CSI RS resources in the at least one resource block pair.

23. A method for receiving an enhanced downlink control channel, comprising:

receiving a signal on a multiplexing unit, wherein the multiplexing unit comprises at least one resource block pair, the at least one resource block pair comprises enhanced downlink control channel E-PDCCH resources and demodulation reference DM RS resources, the E-PDCCH resources comprise multiple control channel elements, and an allocation pattern of the control channel elements in the multiplexing unit is bound to a DM RS port;

configure a binding relationship between the DM RS port and the allocation pattern of the multiple control channel elements of the multiplexing unit in advance, wherein the binding relationship is configured at a base station side and at a UE side;

performing channel estimation by using all DM RSs received on the multiplexing unit; and

demodulating the signal received on the E-PDCCH resources in the multiplexing unit by using a result of the channel estimation, so as to obtain an E-PDCCH.

24. A base station, comprising:

at least one memory to store instructions; and

at least one processor to execute the instructions to configure the base station to;

preset a multiplexing unit, wherein the multiplexing unit comprises at least one resource block pair, the at least one resource block pair comprises enhanced downlink control channel E-PDCCH resources and demodulation reference DM RS resources, the E-PDCCH resources comprise multiple control channel elements, and an allocation pattern of the control channel elements in the multiplexing unit is bound to a DM RS port;

configure a binding relationship between the DM RS port and the allocation pattern of the multiple control channel elements of the multiplexing unit in advance, wherein the binding relationship is also configured at a UE side; and

send at least one E-PDCCH corresponding to at least one user equipment UE in at least one control channel element of the preset multiplexing unit, and send a DM RS corresponding to the at least one UE on the DM RS resources of the preset multiplexing unit.

25. The base station according to claim 24, wherein the base station is further configured to, when the at least one UE is multiple UEs, send E-PDCCHs corresponding to the multiple UEs in at least two control channel elements in the multiple control channel elements according to time-division multiplexing, or frequency-division multiplexing, or time-frequency multiplexing.

26. The base station according to claim 24, wherein the base station is further configured to send, on the DM RS resources in the resource block pair carrying the E-PDCCH of the UE, the DM RS of the UE.

27. A user equipment UE, comprising:

at least one memory to store instructions; and

at least one processor to execute the instructions to configure the UE to;

receive a signal on a multiplexing unit, wherein the multiplexing unit comprises at least one resource block pair, the at least one resource block pair comprises enhanced downlink control channel E-PDCCH resources and demodulation reference DM RS resources, the E-PDCCH resources comprise multiple control channel elements, and an allocation pattern of the control channel elements in the multiplexing unit is bound to a DM RS port;

configure a binding relationship between the DM RS port and the allocation pattern of the multiple control channel elements of the multiplexing unit in advance, wherein the binding relationship is also configured at a base station side;

perform channel estimation by using all DM RSs received on the multiplexing unit; and

demodulate the signal received on the E-PDCCH resources in the multiplexing unit by using a result of the channel estimation, so as to obtain an E-PDCCH.

28. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing processor-executable instructions, the processor-executable instructions, when executed by a processor, facilitating performance of a data transmission method, the data transmission method comprising:

receiving a signal on a multiplexing unit, wherein the multiplexing unit comprises at least one resource block pair, the at least one resource block pair comprises enhanced downlink control channel E-PDCCH resources and demodulation reference DM RS resources, the E-PDCCH resources comprise multiple control channel elements, and an allocation pattern of the control channel elements in the multiplexing unit is bound to a DM RS port;

configuring a binding relationship between the DM RS port and the allocation pattern of the multiple control channel elements of the multiplexing unit in advance, wherein the binding relationship is configured at a base station side and at a UE side;

performing channel estimation by using all DM RSs received on the multiplexing unit; and

demodulating the signal received on the E-PDCCH resources in the multiplexing unit by using a result of the channel estimation, so as to obtain an E-PDCCH.