Method for base station transmitting downlink control channel in wireless communication system and apparatus for same

• US 9,877,339 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2017
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Hanbyul, Kim, Byounghoon, Kim, Kijun, Kim, Hakseong
• Primary Examiner(s): Aung, Sai
• Application Number:
  US15/615,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20170273102A1
• Time in Patent Office: 231 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1273 of downlink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

In the present invention, a method for a base station transmitting a downlink channel is disclosed. More particularly, the method comprises the steps of: dividing each of one or more resources blocks, which are allocated for the downlink control channel, into a predetermined number of subsets; deciding the number of subsets that comprise a resource allocation basic unit for the downlink control channel, based on a start symbol and/or an end symbol of the downlink control channel; mapping a transmission resource on the downlink control channel as the resource allocation basic unit comprising the predetermined number of subsets; and transmitting the downlink control channel by using the transmission resource that is mapped.

Claims

1. A method for receiving a downlink control channel from a base station (BS) at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising;

receiving the downlink control channel using an aggregation of one or more resource units from the BS,

wherein each of the one or more resource units comprises one or more resource sub-units,

wherein, when a downlink bandwidth is equal to or larger than a first threshold value or when a number of available resources for the downlink control channel is smaller than a second threshold value, a number of the resource sub-units constituting each of the one or more resource units is determined to be a value larger than 1.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the downlink bandwidth is smaller than the first threshold value or when the number of available resources for the downlink control channel is equal to or larger than the second threshold value, the number of the resource sub-units is determined to be 1.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of available resources for the downlink control channel is determined according to a number of resource elements for reference signals and an index of starting symbol of the downlink control channel.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the downlink control channel is an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) and the resource sub-unit is an enhanced control channel element (ECCE).

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

a Radio Frequency (RF) unit;

a processor connected with the RF unit and configured to receive a downlink control channel using an aggregation of one or more resource units from a base station (BS),

wherein each of the one or more resource units comprises one or more resource sub-units,

wherein, when a downlink bandwidth is equal to or larger than a first threshold value or when a number of available resources for the downlink control channel is smaller than a second threshold value, the processor determines a number of the resource sub-units constituting each of the one or more resource units to be a value larger than 1.

6. The UE of claim 5, wherein, when the downlink bandwidth is smaller than the first threshold value or when the number of available resources for the downlink control channel is equal to or larger than the second threshold value, the processor determines the number of the resource sub-units to be 1.

7. The UE of claim 5, wherein the number of available resources for the downlink control channel is determined according to a number of resource elements for reference signals and an index of starting symbol of the downlink control channel.

8. The UE of claim 5, wherein the downlink control channel is an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) and the resource sub-unit is an enhanced control channel element (ECCE).

9. A method for transmitting a downlink control channel to a user equipment (UE) at a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising;

transmitting the downlink control channel using an aggregation of one or more resource units to the UE,

wherein each of the one or more resource units comprises one or more resource sub-units,

wherein, when a downlink bandwidth is equal to or larger than a first threshold value or when a number of available resources for the downlink control channel is smaller than a second threshold value, a number of the resource sub-units constituting each of the one or more resource units is determined to be a value larger than 1.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein, when the downlink bandwidth is smaller than the first threshold value or when the number of available resources for the downlink control channel is equal to or larger than the second threshold value, the number of the resource sub-units is determined to be 1.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the number of available resources for the downlink control channel is determined according to a number of resource elements for reference signals and an index of starting symbol of the downlink control channel.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the downlink control channel is an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) and the resource sub-unit is an enhanced control channel element (ECCE).

13. A base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the BS comprising:

a Radio Frequency (RF) unit;

a processor connected with the RF unit and configured to transmit a downlink control channel using an aggregation of one or more resource units from a user equipment (UE),

wherein each of the one or more resource units comprises one or more resource sub-units,

wherein, when a downlink bandwidth is equal to or larger than a first threshold value or when a number of available resources for the downlink control channel is smaller than a second threshold value, the processor determines a number of the resource sub-units constituting each of the one or more resource units to be a value larger than 1.

14. The BS of claim 13, wherein, when the downlink bandwidth is smaller than the first threshold value or when the number of available resources for the downlink control channel is equal to or larger than the second threshold value, the processor determines the number of the resource sub-units to be 1.

15. The BS of claim 13, wherein the number of available resources for the downlink control channel is determined according to a number of resource elements for reference signals and an index of starting symbol of the downlink control channel.

16. The BS of claim 13, wherein the downlink control channel is an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) and the resource sub-unit is an enhanced control channel element (ECCE).