Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control channel by beamforming in a wireless communication system

• US 9,750,003 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2013
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yu, Hyun-Kyu, Kim, Tae-Young, Park, Jeong-Ho, Jeong, Cheol
• Primary Examiner(s): Skripnikov, Alex
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zhang, Ruihua
• Application Number:
  US14/139,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20140177561A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,345 Days
• 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 method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a control channel by beamforming in a wireless communication system are provided. The transmission method includes determining a plurality of pieces of control information to be transmitted on control channels and determining transmission beams for use in beamforming transmission of the plurality of pieces of control information, mapping at least one piece of beam region information indicating at least one beam region in a control channel region and the plurality of pieces of control information to the at least one beam region in the control channel region, at least one piece of control information corresponding to the same transmission beam being arranged in one beam region, and transmitting the mapped beam region information and the mapped control information by transmission beams corresponding to the beam regions in the control channel region.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

generating a plurality of control information sets including resource allocation information for data transmission;

identifying transmission beams for use in beamforming transmission of the plurality of control information sets;

generating a first control format indication related to at least two first control information sets corresponding to a same first transmission beam from among the plurality of control information sets, wherein;

the at least two first control information sets are successively arranged in a control channel resource region,

the first control format indication includes information about the first transmission beam and information about a resource region within the control channel resource region in which the at least two first control information sets are arranged, and

the first control format indication is arranged before the at least two first control information sets;

transmitting a control signal including the first control format indication and the at least two first control information sets on the control channel resource region; and

performing data transmission with at least one mobile station based on the control signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first control format indication includes:

a position of the resource region, a number of the at least two first control information sets included in the resource region, a type of each of the at least two first control information sets, a position of each of the at least two first control information sets in the resource region, a size of each of the at least two first control information sets, and modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) of the at least two first control information sets.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to a same transmission beam, and a control format indication related to each resource region is arranged immediately before a corresponding resource region.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to a same transmission beam, and one or more control format indications related to the one or more resource regions and arranged before all of the resource regions.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more control format indications related to the one or more resource regions are arranged in a same order of the resource regions.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to a same transmission beam and a plurality of control format indications related to transmission beams of a base station, respectively, and arranged before all of the resource regions, and

wherein each of the control format indications indicates:

presence or absence of a control information set allocated to a transmission beam related to a corresponding control format indication.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first control format indication includes a reference signal scrambled with a sequence mapped to the first transmission beam.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource region includes control information allocated to a beam having a narrower beamwidth than the first transmission beam.

9. A method for receiving control information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

acquiring information about a preferred transmission beam of a base station for downlink transmission to a mobile station;

receiving, by the mobile station, a control signal on a control channel resource region having time-frequency resources from the base station, wherein;

the control signal includes a first control format indication and at least two first control information sets corresponding to a same first transmission beam,

the at least two first control information sets are successively arranged in the control channel resource region,

the first control format indication includes information about the first transmission beam and information about a resource region within the control channel resource region in which the at least two first control information sets are arranged,

and the first control format indication is arranged before the at least two first control information sets;

acquiring the first control format indication corresponding to the preferred transmission beam from the control signal;

acquiring a control information set from the at least two first control information sets indicated by the first control format indication; and

performing data transmission with the base station on the control information set,

wherein the at least two first control information sets are transmitted from the base station using the same first transmission beam.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first control format indication includes:

a position of the resource region, a number of the at least two first control information sets, a type of each of the at least two first control information sets, a position of each of the at least two first control information sets in the resource region, a size of each of the at least two first control information sets, and modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) of to the at least two first control information sets.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to a same transmission beam, and a control format indication related to each resource region is arranged immediately before a corresponding resource region.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to a same transmission beam, and one or more control format indications related to the one or more resource regions and arranged before all of the resource regions.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more control format indications related to the one or more resource regions are arranged in a same order of the resource regions.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to a same transmission beam and a plurality of control format indications related to transmission beams of the base station, respectively, and arranged before all of the resource regions, and

wherein each of the control format indications indicates:

presence or absence of a control information set allocated to a transmission beam related to a corresponding control format indication.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the first control format indication includes a reference signal scrambled with a sequence mapped to the preferred transmission beam.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the resource region includes control information allocated to a beam having a narrower beamwidth than the preferred transmission beam.

17. A base station for transmitting a control channel by beamforming in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:

a controller configured to;

generate a plurality of control information sets including resource allocation information for data transmission,

identify transmission beams for use in beamforming transmission of the plurality of control information sets, and

generate a first control format indication related to at least two first control information sets corresponding to a same first transmission beam from among the plurality of control information sets, wherein;

the at least two first control information sets are successively arranged in a control channel resource region,

the first control format indication includes information about the first transmission beam and information about a resource region within the control channel resource region in which the at least two first control information sets are arranged, and

the first control format indication is arranged before the at least two first control information sets; and

a transmitter configured to;

transmit a control signal including the first control format indication and the at least two first control information sets on the control channel resource region, and

perform data transmission with at least one mobile station based on the control signal.

18. The base station of claim 17, wherein the first control format indication includes:

a position of the resource region, a number of the at least two first control information sets included in the resource region, a type of each of the at least two first control information sets, a position of each of the at least two first control information sets in the resource region, a size of each of the at least two first control information sets, and modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) of the at least two first control information sets.

19. The base station of claim 17, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to a same transmission beam, and a control format indication related to each resource region and arranged immediately before a corresponding resource region.

20. The base station of claim 17, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to the same transmission beam, and one or more control format indications related to the one or more resource regions and arranged before all of the resource regions.

21. The base station of claim 20, wherein the one or more control format indications related to the one or more resource regions are arranged in a same order of the resource regions.

22. The base station of claim 17, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to a same transmission beam and a plurality of control format indication related to transmission beams of the base station, respectively, and arranged before all of the resource regions, and

wherein each of the control format indications indicates:

presence or absence of a control information set allocated to a transmission beam related to a corresponding control format indication.

23. The base station of claim 17, wherein the first control format indication includes a reference signal scrambled with a sequence mapped to the first transmission beam.

24. The base station of claim 17, wherein the resource region includes control information allocated to a beam having a narrower beamwidth than the first transmission beam.

25. A mobile station for receiving control information in a wireless communication system, the mobile station comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive a control signal on a control channel resource region having time-frequency resources from a base station, wherein

the control signal includes a first control format indication and at least two first control information sets corresponding to a same first transmission beam,

the at least two first control information sets are successively arranged in the control channel resource region,

the first control format indication includes information about the first transmission beam and information about a resource region within the control channel resource region in which the at least two first control information sets are arranged, and

the first control format indication is arranged before the at least two first control information sets; and

a processor configured to;

acquire information about a preferred transmission beam of the base station for downlink transmission to the mobile station, wherein the preferred transmission beam is the first transmission beam,

acquire the first control format indication corresponding to the preferred transmission beam from the control signal,

acquire a control information set from the at least two first control information sets indicated by the first control format indication, and

wherein the at least two first control information sets are transmitted from the base station using the same first transmission beam.

26. The mobile station of claim 25, wherein the first control format indication includes:

a position of the resource region, a number of the at least two first control information sets, a type of the at least two first control information sets, a position of each of the at least two first control information sets in the resource region, a size of each of the at least two first control information sets, and modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) of the at least two first control information sets.

27. The mobile station of claim 25, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to a same transmission beam, and a control format indication related to each resource region, and arranged immediately before a corresponding resource region.

28. The mobile station of claim 25, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to the same transmission beam, and one or more control format indications related to the one or more resource regions and arranged before of the resource regions.

29. The mobile station of claim 28, wherein the one or more control format indications related to the one or more resource regions are arranged in a same order of the resource regions.

30. The mobile station of claim 25, wherein the control channel resource region includes one or more resource regions each including at least one control information set allocated to the same transmission beam and a plurality of control format indications related to transmission beams of the base station, respectively, and arranged before all of the resource regions, and

wherein each of the control format indications indicates:

presence or absence of a control information set allocated to a transmission beam related to a corresponding control format indication.

31. The mobile station of claim 25, wherein the first control format indication includes a reference signal scrambled with a sequence mapped to the preferred transmission beam.

32. The mobile station of claim 25, wherein the resource region includes control information allocated to a beam having a narrower beamwidth than the preferred transmission beam.