System information transmitting and receiving device
Disclosed are a device and method for transmitting or receiving the system information. The system information transmitting device comprises a processor for transmitting the system information on a broadcast channel, and the system information comprises multi-carrier information relating to a multi-carrier operation. The present invention allows additional information elements to be included in the system information, while also providing backward compatibility with legacy systems.
1. A base station comprising:
a radio frequency unit; and
a processor coupled to the radio frequency unit and configured to
transmit cell-specific system information through a first broadcast channel,
wherein the cell-specific system information comprises
information on system bandwidth,
information on system frame number (SFN), and
configuration information on Physical Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) Indicator Channel (PHICH); and
transmit carrier-specific system information through a second broadcast channel,
wherein the carrier-specific system information comprises multiple carrier information related to a multiple carrier operation,
wherein the first broadcast channel
is a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH),
is scrambled with a first sequence generated based on a cell ID, and
is transmitted on a 1 st subframe among 10 subframes of a radio frame, and
wherein the second broadcast channel
is a Secondary Physical Broadcast Channel (S-PBCH),
is scrambled with a second sequence generated based on a carrier index, and
is transmitted on a 6 th subframe among the 10 subframes of the radio frame.
2. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the multiple carrier information comprises at least one of a number of multiple carriers which are used by a system, a carrier index, and a type of a carrier.
3. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the multiple carrier information comprises a non-Physical Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) Indicator Channel (PHICH) indicator indicating a carrier through which a PHICH used to transmit a downlink HARQ ACK/NACK signal is not transmitted.
4. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the carrier-specific system information comprises a number of transmission antennas used for downlink transmission.
5. The base station of claim 1 , wherein a subframe comprises a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and the S-PBCH is transmitted through at least one of remaining OFDM symbols from among the plurality of OFDM symbols except for OFDM symbols used to transmit an secondary synchronization signal (SSS) and a primary synchronization signal (PSS).
6. A user equipment comprising:
a radio frequency unit; and
a processor coupled to the radio frequency unit and configured to
receive cell-specific system information through a first broadcast channel,
wherein the cell-specific system information comprises
information on system bandwidth,
information on system frame number (SFN), and
configuration information on Physical Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) Indicator Channel (PHICH),
receive carrier-specific system information through a second broadcast channel, and
communicate with a base station based on the cell-specific system information and the carrier-specific system information,
wherein the carrier-specific system information comprises multiple carrier information related to a multiple carrier operation,
wherein the first broadcast channel
is a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH),
is scrambled with a first sequence generated based on a cell ID, and
is received on a 1 st subframe among 10 subframes of a radio frame, and
wherein the second broadcast channel
is a Secondary Physical Broadcast Channel (S-PBCH),
is scrambled with a second sequence generated based on a carrier index, and
is received on a 6 th subframe among the 10 subframes of the radio frame.
7. The user equipment of claim 6 , wherein a subframe comprises a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and the S-PBCH is transmitted through at least one of remaining OFDM symbols from among the plurality of OFDM symbols except for OFDM symbols used to transmit an secondary synchronization signal (SSS) and a primary synchronization signal (PSS).
8. A communication method comprising:
transmitting cell-specific system information through a first broadcast channel,
wherein the cell-specific system information comprises
information on system bandwidth,
information on system frame number (SFN), and
configuration information on Physical Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) Indicator Channel (PHICH); and
transmitting carrier-specific system information through a second broadcast channel, the carrier-specific system information comprising multiple carrier information related to a multiple carrier operation,
wherein the first broadcast channel
is a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH),
is scrambled with a first sequence generated based on a cell ID, and
is transmitted on a 1 st subframe among 10 subframes of a radio frame, and
wherein the second broadcast channel
is a Secondary Physical Broadcast Channel (S-PBCH),
is scrambled with a second sequence generated based on a carrier index, and
is transmitted on a 6 th subframe among the 10 subframes of the radio frame.