Method for base station transmitting downlink control channel in wireless communication system and apparatus for same

• US 9,325,474 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2012
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Hanbyul, Kim, Byounghoon, Kim, Kijun, Kim, Hakseong
• Primary Examiner(s): Ton, Dang
• Assistant Examiner(s): Aung, Sai
• Application Number:
  US14/236,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20140161092A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,405 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329, 370/341, 370/208, 370/431
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1273 of downlink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

In the present invention, a method for a base station transmitting a downlink channel is disclosed. More particularly, the method comprises the steps of: dividing each of one or more resources blocks, which are allocated for the downlink control channel, into a predetermined number of subsets; deciding the number of subsets that comprise a resource allocation basic unit for the downlink control channel, based on a start symbol and/or an end symbol of the downlink control channel; mapping a transmission resource on the downlink control channel as the resource allocation basic unit comprising the predetermined number of subsets; and transmitting the downlink control channel by using the transmission resource that is mapped.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting a downlink control channel at a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising;

configuring a plurality of subsets from each of one or more resource blocks,

wherein each of the plurality of subsets is a subdivision of available resource elements of one resource block;

determining a number of subsets from the plurality of subsets that form a resource allocation unit for the downlink control channel, based on at least one of a downlink bandwidth or a number of the available resource elements of the one resource block;

mapping transmission resources to the downlink control channel; and

transmitting the downlink control channel in the mapped transmission resources,

wherein the transmission resources are an aggregate of one or more resource allocation units,

wherein each of the one or more resource allocation units is configured with the determined number of subsets, and

wherein the determining is based on whether the downlink bandwidth is equal to or larger than a first threshold value or whether the number of the available resource elements of the one resource block for the downlink control channel is smaller than a second threshold value.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a number of the one or more resource allocation units aggregated in the transmission resources is determined based on an aggregation level of the downlink control channel.

3. The method of claim 1,

wherein, if the downlink bandwidth is equal to or larger than the first threshold value or if the number of the available resource elements of the one resource block is smaller than the second threshold value, the number of the subsets is determined to be a value larger than 1;

and

otherwise, the number of the subsets is determined to be 1.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of the available resource elements of the one resource block is determined according to a number of resource elements for reference signals configured in the one resource block and an index of starting symbol of the one resource block.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission resources are located in a data region of the one resource block.

6. A base station in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:

a processor arranged to configure a plurality of subsets from each of one or more resource blocks, determine a number of subsets from the plurality of subsets that form a resource allocation unit for a downlink control channel, based on at least one of a downlink bandwidth or a number of available resource elements of one resource block, and map transmission resources to the downlink control channel; and

a Radio Frequency module configured to transmit the downlink control channel in the mapped transmission resources,

wherein each of the plurality of subsets is a subdivision of the available resource elements of the one resource block,

wherein the transmission resources are an aggregate of one or more resource allocation units,

wherein each of the one or more resource allocation units is configured with the determined number of the subsets, and

wherein the determining is based on whether the downlink bandwidth is equal to or larger than a first threshold value or whether the number of the available resource elements of the one resource block for the downlink control channel is smaller than a second threshold value.

7. The base station of claim 6, wherein a number of the one or more resource allocation units aggregated in the transmission resources is determined based on an aggregation level of the downlink control channel.

8. The base station of claim 6,

wherein the processor determines the number of the subsets to be a value larger than 1, if the downlink bandwidth is equal to or larger than the first threshold value or if the number of the available resource elements of the one resource block is smaller than the second threshold value,

wherein, otherwise, the processor determines the number of the subsets to be 1.

9. The base station of claim 6, wherein the number of the available resource elements of the one resource block is determined according to a number of resource elements for reference signals configured in the one resource block and an index of starting symbol of the one resource block.

10. The base station of claim 6, wherein the transmission resources are located in a data region of the one resource block.