METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20140029561A1
• Filed: 04/09/2012
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Hakseong, Seo, Hanbyul, Lee, Daewon
• Granted Patent: US 9,106,383 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0041 Frequency-non-contiguous
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0094 Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of a base station to transmit a signal in a wireless communication system. The method includes: transmitting Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), which includes scheduling information on a resource area of an unlicensed band over a licensed band; and transmitting a sequence, which includes the identifier of a terminal having the resource area allocated, over the unlicensed band. The timing at which the sequence is transmitted may be set prior to a resource area scheduled by the PDCCH.

Claims

1. In a method for transmitting a signal of a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprises:

transmitting a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) over a licensed band, the PDCCH including scheduling information respective to a resource area of an unlicensed band; and

transmitting a sequence over the unlicensed band, the sequence including an identifier of a user equipment to which the resource area is allocated, and

wherein the timing at which the sequence is transmitted is set prior to a resource area being scheduled by the PDCCH.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the unlicensed band is configured of an uplink resource area and a downlink resource area being alternately repeated over the time domain.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the sequence further includes an indicator indicating to which one of an uplink resource area and a downlink resource area the resource area corresponds.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the sequence is selected from a group of sequences being grouped based upon to which one of the uplink resource area and the downlink resource area the resource area corresponds.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the availability of the resource area is decided by carrier sensing respective to the unlicensed band.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the sequence is scrambled by the identifier of the user equipment.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the sequence is generated by using the identifier of the user equipment as seed.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a time unit including a transmission time section of the sequence and a time section of the scheduled resource area within the unlicensed band corresponds to L×

(1/N) (wherein N is an integer and not equal to

     0), and wherein L corresponds to a subframe length within the licensed band.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the value N is decided based upon a number of user equipments being scheduled by the base station over the unlicensed band.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission time section of the sequence and the time section of the scheduled resource area are continuous.

11. In a method for receiving a signal of a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprises:

receiving a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) from the base station over a licensed band, the PDCCH including scheduling information respective to a resource area of an unlicensed band; and

receiving a sequence including an identifier of a user equipment to which the resource area is allocated, the sequence being transmitted from the base station over the unlicensed band, and

wherein the timing at which the sequence is transmitted is set prior to a resource area being scheduled by the PDCCH.

12. In a base station device in a wireless communication system, the base station device comprises:

a transmitting module; and

a processor,

wherein the processor transmits a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) over a licensed band, the PDCCH including scheduling information respective to a resource area of an unlicensed band, and transmits a sequence over the unlicensed band, the sequence including an identifier of a user equipment to which the resource area is allocated, and wherein the timing at which the sequence is transmitted is set prior to a resource area being scheduled by the PDCCH.

13. In a user equipment device in a wireless communication system, the user equipment device comprises:

a receiving module; and

a processor,

wherein the processor receives a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) from the base station over a licensed band, the PDCCH including scheduling information respective to a resource area of an unlicensed band, and receives a sequence including an identifier of a user equipment to which the resource area is allocated, the sequence being transmitted from the base station over the unlicensed band, and wherein the timing at which the sequence is transmitted is set prior to a resource area being scheduled by the PDCCH.