CONTROL SIGNALING TRANSMISSION METHOD, BASE STATION, TERMINAL AND SYSTEM

• US 20140301335A1
• Filed: 10/22/2012
• Published: 10/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: China Mobile Communications Corporation (Central People's Government of The People's Republic of China)
• Original Assignee: China Mobile Communications Corporation (Central People's Government of The People's Republic of China)
• Inventors: Shi, Zhihua, Shen, Xiaodong, Liu, Jianjun, Pan, Chengkang, Wang, Qixing, Liu, Guangyi
• Application Number:
  US14/354,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20140301335A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

Provided in an embodiment of the present invention are a control signaling transmission method, base station, terminal and system, comprising: when the terminal operates in an E-PDCCH mode, the base station may transmit a control signaling to the terminal via a resource corresponding to the E-PDCCH and a resource corresponding to common search space; that is, in the E-PDCCH mode, the control signaling transmission method on the resource corresponding to the common search space is maintained, thus providing an effective mechanism to transmit the control signaling of the terminal operating in the E-PDCCH mode.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting control signaling comprising:

a base station instructing a user equipment via signaling to switch to an enhanced physical downlink control channel mode, wherein the signaling instructs the user equipment operating in the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode to detect control signaling over a resource corresponding to an enhanced physical downlink control channel and a resource corresponding to a common search space of a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH; and

the base station transmitting the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the enhanced physical downlink control channel and the resource corresponding to the common search space upon reception of a feedback message of the user equipment,

wherein the feedback message notifies the base station that the user equipment has switched to the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the base station instructing the user equipment via the signaling to switch to the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode comprises;

the base station instructing the user equipment via first Radio Resource Control, RRC, signaling to switch to the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode; and

the base station receiving the feedback message of the user equipment comprises;

the base station receiving a first RRC feedback message of the user equipment.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

the base station transmitting the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the common search space after instructing the user equipment via the first RRC signaling to switch to the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode and before receiving the first RRC feedback message of the user equipment.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the base station transmitting the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the common search space after instructing the user equipment via second RRC signaling to switch from the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode to a physical downlink control channel mode and before receiving second RRC feedback message of the user equipment, wherein;

the second RRC feedback message notifies the base station that the user equipment has switched to the physical downlink control channel mode.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the base station transmitting the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the common search space after instructing the user equipment via a handover instruction to be handed over from a current cell to an adjacent cell and before determining that the user equipment has been handed over to the adjacent cell; and

after determining that the user equipment has been handed over to the adjacent cell, the base station judging whether a corresponding parameter configuration of the enhanced physical downlink control channel before the user equipment is handed over is available, and if so, then transmitting the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the enhanced physical downlink control channel and the resource corresponding to the common search space;

otherwise, the base station instructing the user equipment via a higher-layer instruction to update the parameter configuration of the enhanced physical downlink control channel.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

the base station transmitting the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the common search space after instructing the user equipment via the higher-layer instruction to update the parameter configuration of the enhanced physical downlink control channel and before receiving feedback message of the user equipment for the higher-layer instruction; and

the base station transmitting the control signaling to the user equipment according to the updated parameter configuration after receiving the feedback message of the user equipment for the higher-layer instruction, wherein;

the feedback message for the higher-layer instruction notifies the base station that the user equipment has updated the parameter configuration.

7. A base station comprising:

a first sending module configured to instruct a user equipment via signaling to switch to an enhanced physical downlink control channel mode, wherein the signaling instructs the user equipment operating in the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode to detect control signaling over a resource corresponding to an enhanced physical downlink control channel and a resource corresponding to a common search space of a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH;

a reception module configured to receive a feedback message of the user equipment, wherein the feedback message notifies the base station that the user equipment has switched to the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode; and

a signaling transmission module configured to transmit the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the enhanced physical downlink control channel and the resource corresponding to the common search space after the reception module receives the feedback message.

8. The base station of claim 7, wherein:

the first sending module is further configured to instruct the user equipment via first Radio Resource Control, RRC, signaling to switch to the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode; and

the reception module is further configured to receive a first RRC feedback message of the user equipment.

9. The base station of claim 8, wherein:

the signaling transmission module is further configured to transmit the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the common search space after the first sending module instructs the user equipment to switch to the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode and before the reception module receives the first RRC feedback message of the user equipment.

10. The base station of claim 7, wherein:

the first sending module is further configured to instruct the user equipment via second RRC signaling to switch from the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode to a physical downlink control channel mode;

the reception module is further configured to receive a second RRC feedback message of the user equipment, wherein the second RRC feedback message notifies the base station that the user equipment has switched to the physical downlink control channel mode; and

the signaling transmission module is further configured to transmit the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the common search space after the first sending module instructs the user equipment to switch from the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode to a physical downlink control channel mode and before the reception module receives the second RRC feedback message of the user equipment.

11. The base station of claim 7, further comprising a second sending module, a determination module and a third sending module, wherein:

the second sending module is configured to instruct the user equipment via a handover instruction to be handed over from a current cell to an adjacent cell;

the determination module is configured to determine whether the user equipment has been handed over to the adjacent cell;

the signaling transmission module is further configured to transmit the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the common search space after the second sending module instructs the user equipment to be handed over from the current cell to the adjacent cell and before the determination module determines that the user equipment has been handed over to the adjacent cell, and after the determination module determines that the user equipment has been handed over to the adjacent cell, the signaling transmission module is further configured to judge whether a corresponding parameter configuration of the enhanced physical downlink control channel before the user equipment is handed over is available, and if so, to transmit the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the enhanced physical downlink control channel and the resource corresponding to the common search space;

otherwise, to trigger the third sending module; and

the third sending module is configured to instruct the user equipment via a higher-layer instruction to update the parameter configuration of the enhanced physical downlink control channel.

12. The base station of claim 11, wherein:

the reception module is further configured to receive a feedback message of the user equipment for the higher-layer instruction, wherein the feedback message for the higher-layer instruction notifies the base station that the user equipment has updated the parameter configuration; and

the signaling transmission module is further configured to transmit the control signaling to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the common search space after the third sending module comprised in the base station instructs the user equipment via the higher-layer instruction to update the parameter configuration of the enhanced physical downlink control channel and before the reception module receives the feedback message of the user equipment for the higher-layer instruction, and to transmit the control signaling according to the updated parameter configuration after the reception module receives the feedback message of the user equipment for the higher-layer instruction.

13. A user equipment comprising:

a first reception module configured to receive signaling of a base station to instruct the user equipment to switch to an enhanced physical downlink control channel mode, wherein the signaling instructs the user equipment operating in the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode to detect control signaling over a resource corresponding to an enhanced physical downlink control channel and a resource corresponding to a common search space of a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH;

a first sending module configured to send a feedback message to the base station, wherein the feedback message notifies the base station that the user equipment has switched to the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode, and

a second reception module configured to receive the control signaling transmitted by the base station over the resource corresponding to the enhanced physical downlink control channel and the resource corresponding to the common search space of the physical downlink control channel.

14. The user equipment of claim 13, wherein:

the first reception module is further configured to receive first Radio Resource Control, RRC, signaling of the base station to instruct the user equipment to switch to the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode; and

the first sending module is further configured to send a first RRC feedback message to the base station.

15. The user equipment of claim 13, wherein:

the second reception module is further configured to receive the control signaling transmitted by the base station to the user equipment over the resource corresponding to the common search space.

16. The user equipment of claim 13, wherein:

the first reception module is further configured to receive second RRC signaling of the base station to instruct the user equipment to switch from the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode to a physical downlink control channel mode; and

the first sending module is configured to send a second RRC feedback message to the base station, wherein the second RRC feedback message notifies the base station that the user equipment has switched to the enhanced physical downlink control channel mode.

17. The user equipment of claim 13, further comprising:

a third reception module configured to receive a handover instruction of the base station to instruct the user equipment to be handed over from a current cell to an adjacent cell; and

a fourth reception module configured to receive a higher-layer instruction of the base station to update a parameter configuration in the enhanced physical downlink control channel.

18. The user equipment of claim 17, further comprising:

a second sending module configured to send a feedback message for the higher-layer instruction to the base station, wherein the feedback message for the higher-layer instruction notifies the base station that the user equipment has updated the parameter configuration, wherein;

the second reception module further configured to receive the control signaling transmitted by the base station according to the updated parameter configuration.

19. (canceled)