METHOD FOR RECEIVING BUNDLE OF PDCCH, AND MTC DEVICE

• US 20160242203A1
• Filed: 11/21/2014
• Published: 08/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: YOU, Hyangsun, YI, Yunjung, AHN, Joonkui, SEO, Dongyoun, YANG, Suckchel
• Application Number:
  US15/026,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20160242203A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2602 Signal structure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0037 Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/006 Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0082 at predetermined intervals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/044 based on the type of the allocated resource
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1273 of downlink data flows

Abstract

A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDCCH) by a machine type communication (MTC) device. The method may comprise the steps of: when it is required to receive a bundle of PDCCHs in which an identical PDCCH is repeated in N number of sub-frames, determining the first search space for receiving a PDCCH in the first sub-frame among the N number of sub-frames; and determining the second search space for receiving the PDCCH in the second sub-frame among the N number of sub-frames. Herein, the first and the second search space may comprise a plurality of control channel elements (CCE). The location of the CCE in the first search space may be kept the same as in the second search space.

Claims

1. A method for receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDCCH), the method performed by a machine type communication (MTC) device and comprising:

when it is required to receive a PDCCH bundle in which a same PDCCH is repeated on N subframes, determining a first search space for receiving the PDCCH in a first subframe among the N subframes; and

determining a second search space for receiving the PDCCH on a second subframe among the N subframes,

wherein the first and the second search spaces comprise a plurality of control channel elements (CCE), and

wherein a CCE position in the first search space is kept the same in the second search space.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the CCE position in the first search space is kept the same without being changed during a specific duration.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the specific duration is N subframes in which the PDCCH bundle is received, or a system frame duration.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first or second search space is determined by the equation:

L{(Y_k+m′

)mod└

N_CCE,k/L┘

}+i,

where i=0, 1, . . . , L−

1, m′

=0, . . . , M^(L)−

1, and N_CCE,_k is the total number of CCEs that can be used in PDCCH transmission in a control region of a k^th subframe,

wherein when M^(L) is the number of PDCCH candidates at a CCE aggregation level L in a search space, Y_k is kept the same without being changed in every subframe during the PDCCH bundle is received.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein Y_k is kept the same during the PDCCH bundle is received and thereafter is changed according to a specific pattern.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein when a repetition level related to a repetition number of the identical PDCCH is decreased by one level, a period in which reception of the PDCCH bundle can start is decreased by half.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the number N of subframes in which the PDCCH bundle is received varies depending on an aggregation level of the PDCCH.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein when the aggregation level of the PDCCH is increased by one level, the number N of subframes in which the PDCCH bundle is received is decreased by half.

9. A machine type communication (MTC) device for receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDCCH), comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor for determining a first search space for receiving the PDCCH in a first subframe among the N subframes via the RF unit when it is required to receive a PDCCH bundle in which an identical PDCCH is repeated on N subframes, and determining a second search space for receiving the PDCCH on a second subframe among the N subframes,

wherein the first and the second search spaces comprise a plurality of control channel elements (CCE), and

wherein a CCE position in the first search space is kept the same in the second search space.

10. The MTC device of claim 9, wherein the CCE position in the first search space is kept the same without being changed during a specific duration.

11. The MTC device of claim 10, wherein the specific duration is N subframes in which the PDCCH bundle is received, or a system frame duration.

12. The MTC device of claim 9, wherein when a repetition level related to a repetition number of the identical PDCCH is decreased by one level, a period in which reception of the PDCCH bundle can start is decreased by half.

13. The MTC device of claim 9, wherein the number N of subframes in which the PDCCH bundle is received varies depending on an aggregation level of the PDCCH.

14. The MTC device of claim 13, wherein when the aggregation level of the PDCCH is increased by one level, the number N of subframes in which the PDCCH bundle is received is decreased by half.