Base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, communication method, integrated circuit, and communication system

• US 9,775,143 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2013
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Imamura, Kimihiko, Nakashima, Daiichiro, Nogami, Toshizo, Shimezawa, Kazuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Mills, Donald
• Application Number:
  US14/374,765
• Publication Number:
  US 20150023266A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,713 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/005 of common pilots, i.e. pilots destined for multiple users or terminals
• 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 5/0092 Indication of how the channel is divided
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0094 Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

The present invention enables efficient transmission/reception of a signal including control information between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus.

To achieve this, a mobile station apparatus of the present invention is a mobile station apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus, and includes a receiver configured to receive an enhanced physical downlink control channel and specific information from the base station apparatus; a setting unit configured to be able to set, based on the specific information, one of a plurality of possible sets of M, M being the number of first elements that constitute the enhanced physical downlink control channel; and a monitoring unit configured to monitor a search region in which the enhanced physical downlink control channel obtained on the basis of the set possible set of M is possibly mapped.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus comprising:

a transmitter configured to and/or programmed to transmit an enhanced physical downlink control channel,

a memory, and

a processing unit configured to;

determine a value of M which is the number of first elements that constitute the enhanced physical downlink control channel, and which is included in a value set of possible values of M,

each of the first elements consisting of a plurality of second elements,

each of the plurality of second elements being constituted by a plurality of resource elements in a resource block pair, and

determine the value set from a plurality of value sets on the basis of at least information transmitted to a terminal apparatus.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of value sets comprises a first value set and a second value set,

the first value set includes a value smaller than any values included in the second value set, and

the second value set includes a value larger than any values included in the first value set.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the number of values included in the first value set are the same as the number of values included in the second value set.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

either localized transmission or distributed transmission is used to transmit the enhanced physical downlink control channel.

5. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information is a control format indicator value.

6. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information is the number of antenna ports for cell-specific reference signals.

7. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information is information indicated by an RRC signal.

8. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the value set being determined from a plurality of value sets on the basis of at least the number of downlink resource elements in the resource block pair configured for the enhanced physical downlink control channel transmission.

9. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the first elements is an enhanced control channel element (E-CCE).

10. A terminal apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to and/or programmed to monitor an enhanced physical downlink control channel,

a memory, and

a processing unit wherein

a value of M included in a value set of possible values of M is determined, the value being the number of first elements that constitute the enhanced physical downlink control channel,

each of the first elements consisting of a plurality of second elements,

each of the plurality of second elements being constituted by a plurality of resource elements in a resource block pair,

the processing unit being configured to determine the value set from a plurality of value sets on the basis of at least information received from a base station apparatus.

11. The terminal apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the plurality of value sets comprises a first value set and a second value set,

the first value set includes a value smaller than any values included in the second value set, and

the second value set includes a value larger than any values included in the first value set.

12. The terminal apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

the number of values included in the first value set are the same as the number of values included in the second value set.

13. The terminal apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

either localized transmission or distributed transmission is used to transmit the enhanced physical downlink control channel.

14. The terminal apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the information is a control format indicator value.

15. The terminal apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the information is the number of antenna ports for cell-specific reference signals.

16. The terminal apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the information is information indicated by an RRC signal.

17. The terminal apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the value set being determined from a plurality of value sets on the basis of at least the number of downlink resource elements in the resource block pair configured for the enhanced physical downlink control channel transmission.

18. A communication method of a base station apparatus, comprising:

transmitting an enhanced physical downlink control channel,

determining a value of M which is the number of first elements that constitute the enhanced physical downlink control channel, and which is included in a value set of possible values of M,

each of the first elements consisting of a plurality of second elements,

each of the plurality of second elements being constituted by a plurality of resource elements in a resource block pair, and

determining the value set from a plurality of value sets on the basis of at least information transmitted to a terminal apparatus.

19. A communication method of a terminal apparatus, comprising:

monitoring an enhanced physical downlink control channel,

a value of M included in a value set of possible values of M being determined, the value being the number of first elements that constitute the enhanced physical downlink control channel,

each of the first elements consisting of a plurality of second elements,

each of the plurality of second elements being constituted by a plurality of resource elements in a resource block pair,

the communication method further comprising determining the value set from a plurality of value sets on the basis of at least information received from a base station apparatus.