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

• US 9,615,365 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2016
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• 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:
  US15/209,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20160323858A1
• Time in Patent Office: 265 Days
• 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 demodulation for an EPDCCH using a EPDCCH demodulation reference signal (DMRS),

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

wherein the scrambling identity (n_SCID) for the EPDCCH DMRS is a fixed value, and does not depend on scrambling identity information of downlink control information (DCI).

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

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.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the EPDCCH configuration indicates whether the EPDCCH corresponds to localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the PRB pairs for the EPDCCH is determined based on information on a resource set in the EPDCCH configuration.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein each of the PRB pairs comprises four enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs), and wherein each of the ECCEs comprises four enhanced resource element groups (EREGs).

6. A method for transmitting control information by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, via higher layer signaling, an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) configuration; and

transmitting an EPDCCH and a EPDCCH demodulation reference signal (DMRS) based on the EPDCCH configuration,

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

wherein the scrambling identity (n_SCID) for the EPDCCH DMRS is a fixed value, and does not depend on scrambling identity information of downlink control information (DCI).

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the EPDCCH is mapped on a physical resource block (PRB) pair based on the EPDCCH configuration.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the EPDCCH configuration indicates whether the EPDCCH corresponds to localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the PRB pair for the EPDCCH is determined based on information on a resource set in the EPDCCH configuration.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the PRB pair comprises four enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs), and wherein each of the ECCEs comprises four enhanced resource element groups (EREGs).

11. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

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

a processor to perform demodulation for an EPDCCH using a EPDCCH demodulation reference signal (DMRS),

wherein the EPDCCH configuration indicates an EPDCCH DMRS scrambling sequence parameter 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 ‘

nSCID’

denotes a scrambling identity for the EPDCCH DMRS,

wherein the scrambling identity (n_SCID) for the EPDCCH DMRS is a fixed value, and does not depend on scrambling identity information of downlink control information (DCI).

12. The UE according to claim 11,

wherein the processor performs bind 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.

13. The UE according to claim 11, wherein the EPDCCH configuration indicates whether the EPDCCH corresponds to localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission.

14. The UE according to claim 12, wherein the PRB pairs for the EPDCCH is determined based on information on a resource set in the EPDCCH configuration.

15. The UE according to claim 12, wherein each of the PRB pairs comprises four enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs), and wherein each of the ECCEs comprises four enhanced resource element groups (EREGs).

16. A base station (BS) comprising:

a transmitter;

a processor controls the transmitter to transmit, via higher layer signaling, an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) configuration, and to transmit an EPDCCH and a EPDCCH demodulation reference signal (DMRS) based on the EPDCCH configuration,

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

wherein the scrambling identity (n_SCID) for the EPDCCH DMRS is a fixed value, and does not depend on scrambling identity information of downlink control information (DCI).

17. The BS according to claim 16, wherein the EPDCCH is mapped on a physical resource block (PRB) pair based on the EPDCCH configuration.

18. The BS according to claim 16, wherein the EPDCCH configuration indicates whether the EPDCCH corresponds to localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission.

19. The BS according to claim 17, wherein the PRB pair for the EPDCCH is determined based on information on a resource set in the EPDCCH configuration.

20. The BS according to claim 17, wherein the PRB pair comprises four enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs), and wherein each of the ECCEs comprises four enhanced resource element groups (EREGs).