Method of transmitting and receiving control information based on spatial-multiplexing gain

• US 9,622,231 B2
• Filed: 07/12/2013
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Hong, Young Jun, Clerckx, Bruno, Jung, Young Ho, Cho, Joon Young, Han, Jin Kyu, Lee, In Ho, Ji, Hyoung Ju
• Primary Examiner(s): Liu, Jung-Jen
• Application Number:
  US13/940,406
• Publication Number:
  US 20130294389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,369 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03426 transmission using multiple-input and multiple-output channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03343 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• 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 5/0094 Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/046 the resource being in the space domain, e.g. beams
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

A control information transmission and reception method based on a spatial-multiplexing gain, are provided. The control information may be transmitted by obtaining the spatial-multiplexing gain using an E-PDCCH region, and thus, a transmission efficiency of the control information may be improved. The common control information used for decoding the E-PDCCH may be transmitted via a PDCCH, and thus, a base station supporting both a general terminal and an enhanced terminal may effectively transmit the control information. Information associated with an indicator indicating whether the E-PDCCH is to be used during a subsequent resource allocation period may be transmitted, and thus, whether decoding with respect to the E-PDCCH is to be performed during the subsequent allocation period may be determined.

Claims

1. A reception method, comprising:

extracting an indicator included in a first control information received in a first allocation period;

determining, using the indicator, a channel that will contain a second control information in a second allocation period, the channel comprising one of an E-PDCCH or a PDCCH; and

performing, based on the determined channel, one of blind decoding the second control information from the E-PDCCH and decoding the second control information from the PDCCH.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

decoding the second control information based on a radio resource for the PDCCH, in response to determining that the PDCCH contains the second control information.

3. The method of claim 1,

further comprising:

receiving common control information of the second control information via one of the PDCCH or a predetermined channel and the decoding further comprises decoding the second control information based on the common control information, in response to determining that the E-PDCCH contains the second control information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the decoding further comprises:

decoding the common control information based on a group terminal identifier that is commonly allocated to all terminals in an enhanced system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second control information comprises multiple pieces of information corresponding to respective data streams, and the blind decoding further comprises blind decoding each of the multiple pieces of information based on a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of each corresponding piece of information, in response to determining that the second control information is the E-PDCCH.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the decoding further comprises:

determining a blind decoding sequence for the multiple pieces of information based on the SNR of each piece of information, and continuously blind decoding the multiple pieces of information until a desired number of pieces of information are successfully decoded.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

decoding, based on the decoded second control information, at least one data stream received from the E-PDSCH or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).

8. The method of claim 1, wherein, the determination determines that the second control information is transmitted via the E-PDCCH, the second control information includes information associated with Resource Blocks (RBs) allocated to at least one data stream, and the at least one data stream is transmitted via the E-PDSCH.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein, the second control information is allocated to a same resource region, the resource region is for the E-PDCCH, and the second control information is one of spatial-multiplexed, beamforming-processed, and a beamforming-based spatial-multiplexed based on the same resource region.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein, when a type 1 terminal and a type 2 terminal exist, the type 1 terminal succeeds in decoding information received via the E-PDCCH and the type 2 terminal does not decode or fail in decoding the information received via the E-PDCCH, and the type 2 terminal is supported by a different type of system than the type 1 terminal.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the type 1 terminal is supported by an enhanced system and the type 2 terminal is supported by a general system.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracting of the indicator in the first control information comprises decoding a PDCCH and an E-PDCCH from the first control information received in the first allocation period.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the indicator further indicates whether the channel that will contain the second control information in the second allocation period is the same as a channel containing the first control information received in the first allocation period.

14. A reception method, comprising:

receiving control information that is one of beamforming-processed, spatial-multiplexed, and beamforming-based spatial-multiplexed, via an E-PDCCH;

decoding the control information based on a blind decoding scheme;

recognizing, based on the decoded control information, Resource Blocks (RBs) allocated to least one data stream that is transmitted via the E-PDSCH; and

receiving at least one data stream based on the RBs allocated to the at least one data stream.

15. The reception method of claim 14, wherein, when a type 1 terminal and a type 2 terminal exist, the type 1 terminal succeeds in decoding information received via the E-PDCCH and the type 2 terminal does not decode or fail in decoding the information received via the E-PDCCH, and the type 2 terminal is supported by a different type of system than the type 1 terminal.

16. The reception method of claim 15, wherein the type 1 terminal is supported by an enhanced system and the type 2 terminal is supported by a general system.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the decoding the control information based on the blind decoding scheme comprises,

decoding multiple pieces of the control information in order based on a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of each corresponding piece of the control information.

18. A receiver, comprising:

a memory to store an indicator included in a first control information received in a first resource allocation period; and

a processor to determine, based on the indicator, a channel that contains a second control information transmitted in a second period, the channel comprising one of an E-PDCCH or a PDCCH, and to decode, based on the determination, the second control information,

wherein the second control information comprises multiple pieces of information corresponding to respective data streams, and

wherein the processor decodes each of the multiple pieces of information in an order that is based on a signal to noise ration (SNR) of each corresponding piece of information, in response to determining that the E-PDCCH contains the second control information.