Methods for transmitting and receiving control channel, base station, and user equipment

• US 10,575,292 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2017
• Issued: 02/25/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2012
• 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: Liu, Kunpeng, Li, Chaojun, Wu, Qiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Scheibel, Robert C
• Application Number:
  US15/630,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20170289980A1
• Time in Patent Office: 978 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for transmitting and receiving a control channel, a base station, and a user equipment, which relate to the communication field, and can solve a transmission problem of available changing transmission resources caused by introduction of an E-PDCCH. A method includes determining, by a terminal device, a resource set and resource elements (REs) of predetermined overheads in the resource set. The REs of the predetermined overheads include an RE of at least one of a paging channel and a synchronization channel, with at least one of following REs: an RE of a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS), an RE of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS), an RE of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), or a muted RE. The terminal device receives from a base station, a control channel on an RE subset comprised in the resource set, wherein the RE subset comprises a part of the REs in the resource set and do not contain the REs of the predetermined overheads.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a base station, a resource set and resource elements (REs) of predetermined overheads in the resource set, wherein;

the resource set is equally divided into resource subsets according to a predetermined quantity of control channel elements in the resource set, and

for each resource subset;

a quantity of available REs for control channel transmission in the each resource subset is obtained according to a total quantity of REs in the each resource subset and a quantity of REs of the predetermined overheads in the each resource subset, wherein the REs of the predetermined overheads comprise;

a RE of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS), a RE of a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS), and a muted RE, and

each resource subset corresponds to a control channel element, and one or more control channel elements are mapped in a centralized resource mapping mode;

mapping a first control channel to the available REs of at least one of the resource subsets, wherein for each control channel element of the one or more control channel elements;

from a preset start point, the first control channel is mapped to REs in the resource subset corresponding to the control channel element, and when the RE of the predetermined overheads exists during the mapping, the RE of the predetermined overheads is skipped; and

sending, by the base station, the first control channel.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mapping is performed first in a frequency domain and then in a time domain.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port of the one or more control channel elements is dynamically changeable.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein a quantity of the available REs is dynamically changeable.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein

in a configured control channel region, start points of control channel elements or search spaces have an equal spacing in the frequency domain, wherein the spacing is at least one subcarrier.

6. An apparatus, comprising:

a storage medium including executable instructions; and

a processor configured to execute the executable instructions to cause the apparatus to;

determine a resource set and resource elements (REs) of predetermined overheads in the resource set, wherein;

the resource set is equally divided into resource subsets according to a predetermined quantity of control channel elements in the resource set, and

for each resource subset;

a quantity of available REs for control channel transmission in the each resource subset is obtained according to a total quantity of REs in the each resource subset and a quantity of REs of the predetermined overheads in the each resource subset, wherein the REs of the predetermined overheads comprise;

a RE of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS), a RE of a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS), and a muted RE, and

each resource subset corresponds to a control channel element, and one or more control channel elements are mapped in a centralized resource mapping mode;

map a first control channel to the available REs of at least one of the resource subsets, wherein for each control channel element of the one or more control channel elements;

from a preset start point, the first control channel is mapped to REs in the resource subset corresponding to the control channel element, and when the RE of the predetermined overheads exists during the mapping, the RE of the predetermined overheads is skipped; and

send the first control channel.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

the mapping is performed first in a frequency domain and then in a time domain.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port of the one or more control channel elements is dynamically changeable.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein a quantity of the available REs is dynamically changeable.

10. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

in a configured control channel region, start points of control channel elements or search spaces have an equal spacing in the frequency domain, where the spacing is at least one subcarrier.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to carry out steps of:

determining a resource set and resource elements (REs) of predetermined overheads in the resource set, wherein;

the resource set is equally divided into resource subsets according to a predetermined quantity of control channel elements in the resource set, and

for each resource subset;

a quantity of available REs for control channel transmission in the each resource subset is obtained according to a total quantity of REs in the each resource subset and a quantity of REs of the predetermined overheads in the each resource subset, wherein the REs of the predetermined overheads comprise;

a RE of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS), a RE of a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS), and a muted RE, and

each resource subset corresponds to a control channel element, and one or more control channel elements are mapped in a centralized resource mapping mode;

mapping a first control channel to the available REs of at least one of the resource subsets, wherein for each control channel element of the one or more control channel elements;

from a preset start point, the first control channel is mapped to REs in the resource subset corresponding to the control channel element, and when the RE of the predetermined overheads exists during the mapping, the RE of the predetermined overheads is skipped; and

sending the first control channel.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein:

the mapping is performed first in a frequency domain and then in a time domain.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port of the one or more control channel elements is dynamically changeable.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein a quantity of the available REs is dynamically changeable.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein:

in a configured control channel region, start points of control channel elements or search spaces have an equal spacing in the frequency domain, where the spacing is at least one subcarrier.