Control channels for wireless communication
First Claim
1. A wireless communication method in which a wireless network transmits a control channel message for receipt by a terminal, the method comprising,at the wireless network side:
- configuring resources from available resources to form a search space for each of one or more control channel elements for the control channel message;
making a pseudo-random selection of a location for the search space within a subframe using a pseudo-random function;
determining which of the one or more control channel elements to use for transmission of the control channel message, andtransmitting the control channel message at the selected location for the determined one or more control channel elements; and
at the terminal side;
decoding the control channel message corresponding to the one or more control channel elements by making a selection of locations for blind decoding each of the search space within the subframe, using the pseudo-random function,wherein, the pseudo-random function is a function based on a sum of a first value and a second value, wherein the first value is a pseudo-random factor, and the second value is based on an aggregation level and a total of control channel elements in the subframe.
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Abstract
A method for configuring a search space within which a mobile terminal performs blind decoding attempts for potential control message candidates which may be transmitted by a base station. The frequency domain resource for which the terminal performs a blind decoding attempt for a given candidate message is determined by a pseudo-random selection (known by both terminal and network) from a pre-determined set of possible resources. A pre-determined set of resources can be different for each candidate. In one embodiment the set of resources is configured by the network for each terminal and each candidate. The method may be applied for example to ePDCCH of an LTE-A wireless communication system.
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17 Claims
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1. A wireless communication method in which a wireless network transmits a control channel message for receipt by a terminal, the method comprising,
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configuring resources from available resources to form a search space for each of one or more control channel elements for the control channel message; making a pseudo-random selection of a location for the search space within a subframe using a pseudo-random function; determining which of the one or more control channel elements to use for transmission of the control channel message, and transmitting the control channel message at the selected location for the determined one or more control channel elements; and at the terminal side; decoding the control channel message corresponding to the one or more control channel elements by making a selection of locations for blind decoding each of the search space within the subframe, using the pseudo-random function, wherein, the pseudo-random function is a function based on a sum of a first value and a second value, wherein the first value is a pseudo-random factor, and the second value is based on an aggregation level and a total of control channel elements in the subframe. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A wireless communication system comprising a base station and a terminal, the base station arranged to transmit a control channel message which is received by the terminal, the base station comprising:
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a configurer for configuring resources from available resources to form a search space for each of one or more control channel elements for the control channel message; a selector for making a pseudo-random selection of a location for the search space within a subframe using a pseudo-random function; a scheduler for determining which of the one or more control channel elements to use for transmission of the control channel message, and a transmitter for transmitting the control channel message at the location selected by the selector for the one or more control channel elements determined by the scheduler; and the terminal comprising; a receiver for receiving the search space configuration from the base station and for receiving the control channel message; a selector for making a selection of a set of one or more locations for blind decoding within the search space configured for the one or more control channel elements, the selector using the same pseudo-random function used by the selector of the base station; and a decoder for decoding the control channel message at each location selected by the selector of the terminal, wherein, the pseudo-random function is a function based on a sum of a first value and a second value, wherein the first value is a pseudo-random factor, and the second value is based on an aggregation level and a total of control channel elements in the subframe.
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16. A base station for use in a wireless communication system and arranged to transmit a control channel message, the base station comprising:
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a configurer for configuring a resource from available resources to form a search space for each of one or more control channel elements for the control channel message; a selector for making a pseudo-random selection of a location for the search space within a subframe using a pseudo-random function; a scheduler for determining at least one of the one or more control channel elements to use for transmission of the control channel message, and a transmitter for transmitting the control channel message at the location selected by the selector for the at least one control channel element determined by the scheduler, wherein, the pseudo-random function is a function based on a sum of a first value and a second value, wherein the first value is a pseudo-random factor, and the second value is based on an aggregation level and a total of control channel elements in the subframe.
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17. A terminal for use in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network arranged to transmit at least one control channel message to the terminal, the at least one control channel message based on at least one control channel element, a search space being configured from available resources for each of the at least one control channel element, wherein the terminal comprises:
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a receiver for receiving the search space configured for the at least one control channel element from the network, and for receiving the at least one control channel message; a selector for making a selection of locations for blind decoding the search space configured for the at least one control channel element, the selector using a pseudo-random function which is the same as a pseudo-random function used by the network for selecting a location of the at least one control channel element within the search space; and a decoder for decoding the at least one control channel message at each location selected by the selector, wherein, the pseudo-random function is a function based on a sum of a first value and a second value, wherein the first value is a pseudo-random factor, and the second value is based on an aggregation level and a total of control channel elements in a subframe.
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