Method and device for transmitting control information in wireless communication system

• US 9,844,030 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2012
• Issued: 12/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Hakseong, Seo, Hanbyul, Yang, Suckchel
• Primary Examiner(s): Rutkowski, Jeffrey M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tacdiran, Andre
• Application Number:
  US14/000,838
• Publication Number:
  US 20130329686A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,099 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0038 Blind format detection for detection of modulation format H04L27/0012
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0061 Error detection codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0071 Use of interleaving interleaving per se H03M13/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/06 using space diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0097 Relays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1469 using time-sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device therefor, wherein a method for receiving a downlink control channel in a communication device having a plurality of cells in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a subframe containing a plurality of search space resources which are preset to transmit a plurality of downlink control channel candidates, wherein each search space resource corresponds to each cell; and monitoring said plurality of the control channel candidates from at least a portion of said plurality of the search space resources, for said downlink control channel, wherein among said plurality of the cells, if there are one or more specific cells in which downlink transmission is limited at said subframe, search space resources corresponding to said one or more specific cells are used to transmit downlink control channel candidates or downlink shared channels of other cells.

Claims

1. A method of receiving downlink information at a user equipment (UE) configured with a plurality of cells in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, by the UE, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling indicating specific subframes in which the UE monitors UE specific search spaces,

wherein each of the UE specific search spaces is associated with a respective carrier indicator field (CIF) value; and

monitoring, by the UE, at least one first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate, in the specific subframes indicated by the RRC signaling, for a first cell among the plurality of cells,

wherein the monitoring, by the UE, of the at least one first PDCCH candidate is for the first cell in two or more UE specific search spaces for PDCCH candidates having

different CIF values and

the same downlink control information (DCI) format size,

wherein the at least one first PDCCH candidate is monitored, by the UE, on a first region other than a control region on which a second PDCCH different from a first PDCCH is monitored, by the UE, in the specific subframes, and

wherein the UE only monitors the at least one second PDCCH candidate for the first cell without monitoring the at least one first PDCCH candidate for the first cell in subframes other than the specific subframes indicated by the RRC signaling.

2. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the specific subframes include a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) symbols and the search spaces are set within OFDMA symbols other than first M OFDMA symbols in the subframe, and M is a positive integer.

3. A user equipment (UE) for receiving downlink information with a plurality of cells in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) module; and

a processor configured to control the RF module,

wherein the processor is configured to;

receive a Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling indicating plurality of specific subframes in which the UE monitors UE specific search spaces,

wherein each of the UE specific search spaces is associated with a respective carrier indicator field (CIF) value, and monitor at least one first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate, in the specific subframes indicated by the RRC signaling, for a first cell among the plurality of cells

wherein the monitoring, by the UE, of the at least one first PDCCH candidate is for the first cell in two or more UE specific search spaces for PDCCH candidates having different CIF values and the same downlink control information (DCI) format size,

wherein the at least one first PDCCH candidate is monitored, by the UE, on a first region other than a control region on which a second PDCCH different from a first PDCCH is monitored by the UE in the specific subframes, and

wherein the processor is further configured to only monitor the at least one second PDCCH candidate for the first cell without monitoring the at least one first PDCCH candidate for the first cell in subframes other than the specific subframes indicated by the RRC signaling.

4. The UE according to claim 3,

wherein the specific subframes include a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) symbols and the search spaces are set within OFDMA symbols other than first M OFDMA symbols in the subframe, and M is a positive integer.