Method by which a terminal receives enhanced downlink control channel in wireless communication system and apparatus for same

• US 9,480,060 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Daewon, Kim, Hakseong, Seo, Hanbyul
• Primary Examiner(s): Sam, Phirin
• Application Number:
  US14/427,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20150223211A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,140 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2601 Multicarrier modulation systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0051 of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1469 using time-sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/00 Local resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method by which a terminal receives an enhanced downlink control channel in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus for same. In detail, the method for detecting downlink control information includes the steps of receiving information about a specific subframe for an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH), and monitoring the determined number of resource blocks according to available resource regions of the specific subframe in order to detect downlink control information, wherein, when the available resource region is restricted, the number of resource blocks is increased.

Claims

1. A method of receiving downlink control information by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, by a user equipment, information related to a specific subframe for an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH); and

receiving, by a user equipment, at least a part of the downlink control information by monitoring a number of resource blocks determined in accordance with available resource regions of the specific subframe,

wherein, when the specific subframe is a special subframe, the available resource regions are restricted to a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS) of the special subframe and a number of physical resource block pairs for the EPDCCH is greater than a number of physical resource block pairs for the EPDCCH when the specific subframe is a normal subframe.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information related to the specific subframe is received through higher layer signaling.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein, when the resource regions are restricted to the DwPTS, the physical resource block pairs for the EPDCCH are configured in accordance with a distributed mode.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein antenna ports allocated in association with the physical resource block pairs are configured in accordance with a localized mode.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein antenna ports allocated in association with the physical resource block pairs are configured in accordance with a distributed mode.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the number of the physical resource block pairs is additionally increased on the basis of a predetermined value defined in accordance with an aggregation level if the available resource regions are restricted to the DwPTS.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the number of the physical resource block pairs is increased to a multiple of a number of available orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of the available resource regions if the available resource regions are restricted.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information related to the specific subframe includes at least one of a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols for the EPDCCH, the number of the physical resource block pairs, and locations of the physical resource block pairs.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein a location of a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) at the specific subframe number is changed if the available resource regions are restricted to the DwPTS.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the available resource regions include at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol.

11. A user equipment for receiving downlink control information in a wireless communication system, the user equipment comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor operably coupled to the RF unit,

wherein the processor is configured to;

receive information on a specific subframe for an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH), and

receive at least a part of the downlink control information by monitoring a number of resource blocks determined in accordance with available resource regions of the specific subframe,

wherein, when the specific subframe is a special subframe, the available resource regions are restricted to a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS) of the special subframe and a number of physical resource block pairs for the EPDCCH is greater than a number of physical resource block pairs for the EPDCCH when the specific subframe is a normal subframe.