Method for transceiving downlink control channel in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor

• US 9,609,639 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2013
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Hanbyul, Yang, Suckchel
• Primary Examiner(s): LAMONT, BENJAMIN S
• Application Number:
  US14/387,381
• Publication Number:
  US 20150078277A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,462 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method to receive an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the method includes monitoring at least one EPDCCH candidate consisting of one or more enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs) in resource blocks and receiving the EPDCCH, wherein the number of ECCEs forming each of the one or more EPDCCH candidates corresponds to an aggregation level, the number of the EPDCCH candidates is set based on the number of ECCEs for each resource block and the number of resource blocks, and, when the number of resource blocks is a first value and the number of ECCEs for each resource block is a second value, the number of EPDCCH candidates in a specific aggregation level is set as a value obtained by dividing the total number of ECCEs by the specific aggregation level.

Claims

1. A method for receiving an EPDCCH (Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel) from a base station by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

monitoring at least one EPDCCH candidate comprising one or more enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs) in resource blocks for the EPDCCH, and

receiving the EPDCCH,

wherein a number of ECCEs forming each of the at least one EPDCCH candidate corresponds to an aggregation level,

wherein the number of ECCEs per resource block is 4,

wherein, when a number of the resource blocks for the EPDCCH is 2, the number of the at least one EPDCCH candidate corresponding to the aggregation level is defined as a value obtained by dividing a total number of ECCEs by the aggregation level,

wherein, when the number of the resource blocks for the EPDCCH is not 2, the number of the at least one EPDCCH candidate corresponding to the aggregation level is set to a fixed value.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the aggregation level is one of 1, 2, 4 or 8.

3. A UE in a wireless communication system, comprising:

a radio frequency module;

a processor configured to obtain an EPDCCH by monitoring at least one EPDCCH candidate composed of one or more enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs) in resource blocks for the EPDCCH,

wherein a number of ECCEs forming each of the at least one EPDCCH candidate corresponds to an aggregation level and to receive the EPDCCH via the radio frequency module by monitoring the at least one EPDCCH candidate,

wherein the number of ECCEs per resource block is 4,

wherein the processor sets the number of the at least one EPDCCH candidate corresponding to the aggregation level as a value obtained by dividing a total number of ECCEs by the specific aggregation level when a number of the resource blocks is 2,

wherein the processor sets the number of the EPDCCH candidates corresponding to the aggregation level to a fixed value when the number of the resource blocks is not 2.

4. The UE according to claim 3, wherein the aggregation level is one of 1, 2, 4 or 8.