Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in wireless communication system

• US 9,312,993 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Hanbyul, Kim, Hakseong
• Primary Examiner(s): Elliott, IV, Benjamin H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nowlin, Eric
• Application Number:
  US14/129,670
• Publication Number:
  US 20140146768A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,384 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2601 Multicarrier modulation systems
• 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 5/0094 Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

The present invention pertains to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method of receiving a downlink (DL) control channel in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor, and the method comprises the following steps: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including resource block (RB) allocation information; receiving a subframe having a plurality of physical RBs; and monitoring a plurality of downlink control channel candidates in a physical RB set corresponding to the RB allocation information from the plurality of physical RBs to detect a downlink control channel allocated to a communication device, wherein the plurality of downlink control channel candidates do not continuously exist in a virtual RB set corresponding to the physical RB set.

Claims

1. A method for receiving a downlink control channel by a communication device in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

determining a resource block pair (RB) set for localized mapping, the RB pair set being a subset of bandwidth and divided into a control channel element set on which downlink control channel candidates are defined; and

monitoring the downlink control channel candidates on the control channel element set of the RB pair set in a subframe to detect a downlink control channel allocated to the communication device,

wherein the downlink control channel candidates include n^th and n+1^th downlink control channel candidates of an aggregation level,

wherein the n^th and n+1^th downlink control channel candidates of the aggregation level are separated by a gap on the control channel element set, and

wherein gap size depends on a number of control channel elements in an RB pair of the RB pair set.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the downlink control channel candidates are present after a specific orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in the subframe, and the specific OFDM symbol is not a starting OFDM symbol of the subframe.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein RB pairs other than the RB pair set in the bandwidth are resources for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the downlink control channel includes an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH).

5. A communication apparatus for use in a wireless communication system, comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to determine a resource block (RB) pair set for a localized mapping, the RB pair set being a subset of a bandwidth and divided into a control channel element set on which downlink control channel candidates are defined and to monitor the downlink control channel candidates on the control channel element set of the RB pair set in a subframe to detect a downlink control channel allocated to the communication device,

wherein the downlink control channel candidates includes n^th and n+1^th downlink control channel candidates of an aggregation level,

wherein the n^th and n+1^th downlink control channel candidates of the aggregation level are separated by a gap on the control channel element set, and

wherein gap size depends on a number of control channel elements in an RB pair of the RB pair set.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the downlink control channel candidates are present after a specific OFDM symbol in the subframe, and the specific OFDM symbol is not a starting OFDM symbol of the subframe.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 5, wherein RB pairs other than the RB pair set in the bandwidth are resources for PDSCH transmission.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the downlink control channel includes an E-PDCCH.