Method and device for receiving control information in wireless communication system

• US 9,660,783 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2013
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Hanbyul, Seo, Inkwon
• Primary Examiner(s): Huq, Obaidul
• Application Number:
  US14/384,139
• Publication Number:
  US 20150139093A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,513 Days
• Field of Search: 370310, 370328, 370329, 370330, 370338, 370340, 370341, 370431, 370432, 370436, 370464, 370465
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• 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

Abstract

The present invention according to one embodiment relates to a method for enabling a terminal to receive control information in a wireless communication system, and the method for receiving the control information comprises the step of attempting to decode a set of enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) candidates according to each set level, wherein a minimum value among the values available as the set levels is set according to the amount of available resources for an EPDCCH within a physical resource block (PRB) pair that is attempting to decode.

Claims

1. A method for receiving control information at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, at the UE, a subframe including an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH); and

monitoring, at the UE, a set of EPDCCH candidates at each aggregation level of an aggregation levels set,

wherein the aggregation levels set is set differently according to the number of Resource Elements (REs) for the EPDCCH in a physical resource block (PRB) pair that includes a fixed number of enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs),

wherein a minimum level of the aggregation levels set is determined as a first level when the number of the REs for the EPDCCH in the PRB pair is less than a predetermined value;

wherein the minimum level of the aggregation levels set is determined as a second level when the number of the REs for the EPDCCH in the PRB pair is greater than the predetermined value; and

wherein the first level is greater than the second level.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the aggregation level set is 2, 4, 8 and 16 when the number of the REs for the EPDCCH in the PRB pair is less than the predetermined value, and the aggregation level set is 1, 2, 4 and 8 when the number of the REs for the EPDCCH in the PRB pair is greater than the predetermined value.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fixed number is 2 or 4.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the ECCE includes available resources for the EPDCCH and resources unrelated to the EPDCCH.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the UE extracts and decodes only the available resources for the EPDCCH from the ECCE.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the UE receives information for determining the resources unrelated to the EPDCCH from a base station.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the information is received via higher layer signaling.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the UE excludes an ECCE of a PRB pair, on which at least one of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) or a synchronization channel is transmitted, upon attempting decoding.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the PRB pair is included in any one of PRB pairs for localized EPDCCH transmission and PRB pairs for distributed EPDCCH transmission.

10. A user equipment (UE) apparatus in a wireless communication system, the UE apparatus comprising:

a receiver; and

a processor configured to;

receive a subframe including an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH); and

monitor a set of EPDCCH candidates at each aggregation level of an aggregation levels set, and

the aggregation levels set is set differently according to the number of Resource Elements (REs) for the EPDCCH in a physical resource block (PRB) pair that includes fixed enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs),

wherein a minimum level of the aggregation levels set is determined as a first level when the number of the REs for the EPDCCH in the PRB pair is less than a predetermined value;

wherein the minimum level of the aggregation levels set is determined as a second level when the number of the REs for the EPDCCH in the PRB pair is greater than the predetermined value; and

wherein the first level is greater than the second level.