Method and device for receiving control information in wireless communication system

• US 9,839,020 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2013
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Inkwon, Seo, Hanbyul
• Primary Examiner(s): FOUD, HICHAM B
• Application Number:
  US14/434,636
• Publication Number:
  US 20150289236A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,497 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/0023 Interference mitigation or co-ordination direct sequence spread spectrum [DSSS] systems H04B1/7097; frequency hopping H04B1/713; allocation criteria for ingress interference avoidance H04L5/0062; frequency allocation criteria for requirements on out-of-channel emissions H04L5/0066; arrangements for removing intersymbol interference or baseband equalisers H04L25/03006; peak power aspects in multicarrier modulation H04L27/2614; power management H04W52/00; traffic scheduling H04W72/54, H04W72/541
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/16 Code allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0046 Code rate detection or code type detection H04L1/0038 takes precedence; detection of the data rate H04L25/0262; for packet format H04L1/0091
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0026 Division using four or more dimensions
• 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: 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

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for receiving control information through an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH), the method includes receiving a subframe which includes one or more EPDCCH physical resource block (PRB) sets, and attempting to decode one or more EPDCCH candidates in each of the EPDCCH PRB sets. When the transmission areas of the EPDCCH PRB set and a first signal overlap with each other, information relating to the EPDCCH candidate or information relating to the decoding is determined to be different according to one or both of EPDCCH PRB set type and/or cell identity (ID).

Claims

1. A method for receiving control information on an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH) by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving a subframe including one or more EPDCCH Physical Resource Block (PRB) sets; and

attempting to decode one or more EPDCCH candidates in each of the one or more EPDCCH PRB sets,

wherein if a EPDCCH PRB set of the one or more EPDCCH PRB sets is overlapped with a transmission area of a first signal, invalid EPDCCH candidates, which are not attempted to be decoded, are determined according to whether a type of the EPDCCH PRB set is for localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission,

wherein if the EPDCCH PRB set is for localized EPDCCH transmission, EPDCCH candidates included in PRB pairs overlapped with the transmission area of the first signal among PRB pairs included in the EPDCCH PRB set are determined to be invalid, and

wherein if the EPDCCH PRB set is for distributed EPDCCH transmission, all EPDCCH candidates included in the EPDCCH PRB set are determined to be invalid.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a number of valid EPDCCH candidates to attempt to decode is determined according to the size of the EPDCCH PRB set, taking into account a PRB pair overlapped with the transmission area of the first signal.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the size of the EPDCCH PRB set is a value available as the number of PRB pairs included in the EPDCCH PRB set, which does not exceed a value obtained by subtracting the number of PRB pairs overlapped with the transmission area of the first signal from the number of PRB pairs included in the EPDCCH PRB set, indicated by higher-layer signaling.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein if the value obtained by subtracting the number of PRB pairs overlapped with the transmission area of the first signal from the number of PRB pairs included in the EPDCCH PRB set, indicated by higher-layer signaling is smaller than a predetermined value, the EPDCCH PRB set is determined to be invalid.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein

if a cell ID causes overlap between a Resource Element (RE) carrying the first signal and an RE of one of Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) groups of EPDCCH-associated DeModulation Reference Signals (DMRSs), one antenna port is allocated to two Enhanced Control Channel Elements (ECCEs) in a PRB pair overlapped with the transmission area of the first signal.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the one antenna port allocated to the two ECCEs belongs to a CDM group other than the one CDM group.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the PRB pair overlapped with the transmission area of the first signal is included in an EPDCCH PRB set for localized EPDCCH transmission.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein if the cell ID causes overlap between a Resource Element (RE) carrying the first signal and an RE of one of CDM groups of EPDCCH-associated DMRSs, one ECCE includes eight Enhanced RE Groups (EREGs) in a PRB pair overlapped with the transmission area of the first signal.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first signal is a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS).

10. A User Equipment (UE) for receiving a downlink signal on an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH) in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a transceiver that transmits and receives signals to and from a network;

a processor that controls the transceiver; and

a memory that stores instructions for the processor;

wherein the processor;

controls the transceiver to receive a subframe including one or more EPDCCH Physical Resource Block (PRB) sets, and attempts to decode one or more EPDCCH candidates in each of the one or more EPDCCH PRB sets, and

wherein if a EPDCCH PRB set of the one or more EPDCCH PRB sets is overlapped with a transmission area of a first signal, invalid EPDCCH candidates, which are not attempted to be decoded, are determined according to whether a type of the EPDCCH PRB set is for localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission,

wherein if the EPDCCH PRB set is for localized EPDCCH transmission, EPDCCH candidates included in PRB pairs overlapped with the transmission area of the first signal among PRB pairs included in the EPDCCH PRB set are determined to be invalid, and

wherein if the EPDCCH PRB set is for distributed EPDCCH transmission, all EPDCCH candidates included in the EPDCCH PRB set are determined to be invalid.