METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION THROUGH BLIND DECODING OF AN ENHANCED PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (EPDCCH)

• US 20170135083A1
• Filed: 01/24/2017
• Published: 05/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: SEO, Inkwon, SEO, Hanbyul, KIM, Hakseong
• Granted Patent: US 10,028,266 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/0012 arrangements for identifying the type of modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/00 Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
• 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 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for enabling a terminal to receive control information in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: determining resource units for Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH) of a plurality of resource units, with respect to each of one or more resource sets; and blind-decoding the resource units for the EPDCCH with respect to each of the one or more resource sets, wherein each of the one or more resource sets is set for one of localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPCCH transmission.

Claims

1. A method for receiving control information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, via higher layer signaling, an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) configuration including a scrambling sequence parameter for an EPDCCH demodulation reference signal (DMRS);

obtaining an EPDCCH DMRS sequence based on an equation ‘

(└

ns/2┘

+1)·

(2X+1)·

216+nSCID’

, where ‘

ns’

denotes a slot number, ‘

X’

denotes the EPDCCH DMRS scrambling sequence parameter included in the EPDCCH configuration and ‘

nSCID’

denotes a scrambling identity for the EPDCCH DMRS; and

receiving downlink control information (DCI) through an EPDCCH using the EPDCCH DMRS sequence,

wherein the scrambling identity ‘

nSCID’

for the EPDCCH DMRS is fixed to a predetermined value.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the scrambling identity ‘

nSCID’

does not depend on scrambling identity information in the DCI.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the DCI through the EPDCCH comprises:

performing demodulation for the EPDCCH using the EPDCCH DMRS sequence.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the DCI through the EPDCCH comprises:

performing blind decoding on a plurality of physical resource block (PRB) pairs corresponding to each of at least one EPDCCH PRB set based on the EPDCCH configuration.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the PRB pairs for the EPDCCH is determined based on information on a resource set in the EPDCCH configuration.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein each of the PRB pairs comprises four enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs), and each of the ECCEs comprises four enhanced resource element groups (EREGs).

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the EPDCCH configuration indicates whether the EPDCCH corresponds to localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium recorded thereon a program for executing the method of claim 1.

9. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

a receiver to receive, via higher layer signaling, an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) configuration including a scrambling sequence parameter for an EPDCCH demodulation reference signal (DMRS), and to receive downlink control information (DCI) through an EPDCCH using a EPDCCH DMRS sequence; and

a processor to obtain the EPDCCH DMRS sequence based on an equation ‘

(└

ns/2┘

+1)·

(2X+1)·

216+nSCID’

, where ‘

ns’

denotes a slot number, ‘

X’

denotes the EPDCCH DMRS scrambling sequence parameter included in the EPDCCH configuration and ‘

nSCID’

denotes a scrambling identity for the EPDCCH DMRS,

wherein the scrambling identity ‘

nSCID’

for the EPDCCH DMRS is fixed to a predetermined value.

10. The UE of claim 9, wherein the scrambling identity ‘

nSCID’

does not depend on scrambling identity information in the DCI.

11. The UE of claim 9, wherein the processor performs demodulation for the EPDCCH using the EPDCCH DMRS sequence.

12. The UE of claim 9, wherein the processor performs blind decoding on a plurality of physical resource block (PRB) pairs corresponding to each of at least one EPDCCH PRB set based on the EPDCCH configuration.

13. The UE of claim 12, wherein the PRB pairs for the EPDCCH is determined based on information on a resource set in the EPDCCH configuration.

14. The UE of claim 12, wherein each of the PRB pairs comprises four enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs), and each of the ECCEs comprises four enhanced resource element groups (EREGs).

15. The UE of claim 9, wherein the EPDCCH configuration indicates whether the EPDCCH corresponds to localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission.