Method for control channel detection in a multicarrier system

• US 8,937,913 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2009
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, So Yeon, Chung, Jae Hoon, Kwon, Yeong Hyeon
• Primary Examiner(s): Harper, Kevin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rose, Derrick V
• Application Number:
  US13/139,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20110299489A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,866 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0046 Code rate detection or code type detection H04L1/0038 takes precedence; detection of the data rate H04L25/0262; for packet format H04L1/0091
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0052 Realisations of complexity reduction techniques, e.g. pipelining or use of look-up tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0061 Error detection codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0072 Error control for data other than payload data, e.g. control data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0091 Signaling for the administration of the divided path

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and device for reducing the level of blind decoding complexity when detecting a control channel in a broadband wireless access system supporting multicarrier operation. Examples of the present invention disclose methods for the effective blind decoding of a control channel using an explicit method and implicit methods when sending a control channel based on multicarrier operation as with a control channel for transmitting downlink or uplink allocation information under carrier aggregation conditions.

Claims

1. A method for detecting a control channel in a carrier aggregation system, the method performed by a terminal supporting the carrier aggregation system and comprising:

receiving a first control signal including carrier information indicating candidate carriers allocated to the terminal among two or more carriers used for the carrier aggregation system;

performing blind decoding on only the candidate carriers among the two or more carriers based on the carrier information to detect the control channel, without blind decoding all of the two or more carriers; and

receiving a second control signal on the detected control channel,

wherein a primary carrier of the candidate carriers is blind decoded using a same CCE (Control Channel Element) aggregation level as a legacy terminal which does not support the carrier aggregation system, and one or more secondary carriers of the candidate carriers are blind decoded using aggregation levels adjacent to the aggregation level of the primary carrier, and

wherein the first control signal is allocated between a 17th CCE and a (17+N)th CCE, and CCEs between a first CCE and 16th CCE are allocated for both the terminal and the legacy terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first control signal includes a number of scheduled CCs (Component Carriers) indication parameter, a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) monitoring set indication, a scheduled CC indication, a bandwidth and transmission mode indication, a CCE (Control Channel Element) aggregation level, a number of candidate PDCCHs, indexes of the candidate PDCCHs, a DCI (Downlink Control Information) format indication or CFI (Control Format Indicator) values for candidate carrier sets.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the carrier information includes information indicating a carrier to which the control channel allocated to the terminal is allocated, information about candidate carriers for transmitting a data channel to the terminal, information indicating an area or a carrier in which the terminal is to perform the blind decoding or information indicating an aggregation level of each of the two or more carriers.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control channel is a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first control signal is a first PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) signal transmitted on a PDCCH.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first control signal is transmitted by Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein when decoding of the first control signal fails, the control channel is detected by performing blind decoding on all candidate carriers allocated to the terminal.

15. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the second control signal is jointly encoded from both a first control channel of a first carrier of the two or more carriers and a second control channel of a second carrier of the two or more carriers, and

wherein the terminal simultaneously transceives the signals on the first carrier and the second carrier based on the second control signal.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the blind decoding is performed using aggregation levels adjacent to the aggregation level of the Kth subframe between (K+1)th subframe and (K+L)th subframe when the blind decoding is successfully performed at the Kth subframe.

8. A terminal for detecting a control channel in a carrier aggregation system, the terminal comprising:

a radio Frequency (RF) module for transmitting and receiving a radio signal; and

a processor for detecting the control channel,

wherein the processor is configured to;

receive a first control signal including carrier information indicating candidate carriers allocated to the terminal among two or more carriers used for the carrier aggregation system;

perform blind decoding on only the candidate carriers among the two or more carriers based on the carrier information to detect the control channel, without blind decoding all of the two or more carriers; and

receive a second control signal on the detected control channel,

wherein a primary carrier of the candidate carriers is blind decoded using a same CCE (Control Channel Element) aggregation level as a legacy terminal which does not support the carrier aggregation system, and one or more secondary carriers of the candidate carriers are blind decoded using aggregation levels adjacent to the aggregation level of the primary carrier, and

wherein the first control signal is allocated between a 17th CCE and a (17+N)th CCE, and CCEs between a first CCE and 16th CCE are allocated for both the terminal and the legacy terminal.

9. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the first control signal includes a number of scheduled CCs (Component Carriers) indication parameter, a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) monitoring set indication, a scheduled CC indication, a bandwidth and transmission mode indication, a CCE (Control Channel Element) aggregation level, a number of candidate PDCCHs, indexes of the candidate PDCCHs, a DCI (Downlink Control Information) format indication or CFI (Control Format Indicator) values for candidate carrier sets.

10. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the carrier information includes information indicating a carrier to which the control channel allocated to the terminal is allocated, information about candidate carriers for transmitting a data channel to the terminal, information indicating an area or a carrier in which the terminal is to perform the blind decoding or information indicating an aggregation level of each of the two or more carriers.

11. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the control channel is a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).

12. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the first control signal is a first PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) signal transmitted on a PDCCH.

13. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the first control signal is transmitted by Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling.

14. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein when decoding of the first control signal fails, the processor of the terminal detects the control channel by performing blind decoding on all candidate carriers allocated to the terminal.

16. The terminal according to claim 8,

wherein the second control signal is jointly encoded from both a first control channel of a first carrier of the two or more carriers and a second control channel of a second carrier of the two or more carriers, and

wherein the terminal simultaneously transceives the signals on the first carrier and the second carrier based on the second control signal.

18. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to perform the blind decoding using aggregation levels adjacent to the aggregation level of the Kth subframe between (K+1)th subframe and (K+L)th subframe when the blind decoding is successfully performed at the Kth subframe.