Method and apparatus for receiving control information through blind decoding of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH)

• US 9,445,413 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2013
• Issued: 09/13/2016
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): MUSA, ABDELNABI O
• Application Number:
  US14/384,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20150063236A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,271 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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; and

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,

wherein in performing the blind decoding, demodulation for an EPDCCH is performed by using a EPDCCH demodulation reference signal (DMRS),

wherein the EPDCCH configuration indicates an EPDCCH DMRS scrambling sequence parameter for the EPDCCH DMRS other than a scrambling identity for the EPDCCH DMRS,

wherein a scrambling sequence for the EPDCCH DMRS is initialized based on an equation ‘

(|n_s/2|+1)·

(2X+1)·

2¹⁶+n_SCID’

,

where ‘

n_s’

denotes a slot number, ‘

X’

denotes the EPDCCH DMRS scrambling sequence parameter indicated by the EPDCCH configuration and ‘

n_SCID’

denotes the scrambling identity,

wherein the scrambling identity (n_SCID) for the EPDCCH DMRS is always fixed to a specific value, and

wherein the scrambling identity n_SCID for the EPDCCH DMRS does not depend on scrambling identity information contained in downlink control information (DCI).

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one EPDCCH PRB set based on EPDCCH configuration corresponds to localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein:

the at least one EPDCCH PRB set comprises a first EPDCCH PRB set configured for the localized EPDCCH transmission and a second EPDCCH PRB set configured for the distributed EPDCCH transmission; and

when an overlapping PRB pair included in both the first EPDCCH PRB set and second EPDCCH PRB set is present among the PRB pairs for the EPDCCH, the UE considers only at least one antenna port other than at least one antenna port related to the distributed EPDCCH transmission as valid on the overlapping PRB pair, among at least one antenna port related to the localized EPDCCH transmission.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the at least one antenna port related to the localized EPDCCH transmission comprises antenna ports 107, 108, 109, and 110, and the at least one antenna port related to the distributed EPDCCH transmission comprises antenna ports 107 and 109.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein:

the at least one EPDCCH PRB comprises a first EPDCCH PRB configured for the localized EPDCCH transmission and a second EPDCCH PRB configured for the distributed EPDCCH transmission; and

when an overlapping PRB pair included in both the first EPDCCH PRB set and second EPDCCH PRB set is present among the PRB pairs for the EPDCCH, the UE uses a pre-configured antenna port to perform blind decoding for a localized EPDCCH on the overlapping PRB pair.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the pre-configured antenna port is delivered through higher layer signaling.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein each of the PRB pairs comprises four enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs).

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein each of the ECCEs comprises four enhanced resource element groups (EREGs).

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the localized EPDCCH transmission is based on at least one consecutive ECCE according to aggregation level.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the distributed EPDCCH transmission is based on an ECCE comprising EREGs belonging to the PRB pairs.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein determination of the PRB pairs for the EPDCCH is based on information about a resource set delivered through higher layer signaling.

12. A user equipment in a wireless communication system, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, via higher layer signaling, an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) configuration; and

a processor configured to perform 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,

wherein in performing the blind decoding, demodulation for an EPDCCH is performed by using a EPDCCH demodulation reference signal (DMRS),

wherein the EPDCCH configuration indicates an EPDCCH DMRS scrambling sequence parameter for the EPDCCH DMRS other than a scrambling identity for the EPDCCH DMRS,

wherein a scrambling sequence for the EPDCCH DMRS is initialized based on an equation ‘

(|n_s/2|+1)·

(2X+1)·

2¹⁶+n_SCID’

,

where ‘

n_s’

denotes a slot number, ‘

X’

denotes the EPDCCH DMRS scrambling sequence parameter indicated by the EPDCCH configuration and ‘

n_SCID’

denotes the scrambling identity,

wherein the scrambling identity (n_SCID) for the EPDCCH DMRS is always fixed to a specific value, and

wherein the scrambling identity n_SCID for the EPDCCH DMRS does not depend on scrambling identity information contained in downlink control information (DCI).