IP Library Granted Patent US 9,480,059
Granted Patent B2
US 9,480,059 · App. 13/917,618 · Granted Oct 25, 2016

Method of indicating downlink control channel and related communication device

Inventor: Chien-Min Lee (New Taipei, TW)
Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
H04W72/042H04L5/0053
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Patent No.
US 9,480,059
App. No.
13/917,618
Granted
Oct 25, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of indicating a downlink (DL) control channel for a network of a wireless communication system method comprises configuring an enhanced physical control format indicator channel (ePCFICH) according to an amount of resource for transmitting an enhanced physical DL control channel (ePDCCH) of a subframe, wherein the ePDCCH is dedicate to a communication device of the wireless communication system or to a group to which the communication device belongs; and transmitting the ePCFICH to the communication device via a plurality of bits of a physical hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) indicator channel (PHICH) of the subframe, to indicate the amount of resource for transmitting the ePDCCH to the communication device.

Claims (17)

1. A method of indicating a downlink (DL) control channel for a network of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

configuring an enhanced physical control format indicator channel (ePCFICH) according to an amount of resource for transmitting an enhanced physical DL control channel (ePDCCH) of a subframe, wherein the ePDCCH is dedicate to a communication device of the wireless communication system or to a group to which the communication device belongs; and

transmitting the ePCFICH to the communication device via a plurality of bits of a physical hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) indicator channel (PHICH) of the subframe, to indicate the amount of resource for transmitting the ePDCCH to the communication device;

wherein the plurality of bits of the PHICH is encoded according to a code division multiplexing (CDM) rule of the PHICH;

wherein a location of the plurality of bits of the PHICH is determined according to at least one of a cell-specific identifier, a subframe index of the subframe, a DL system bandwidth of the wireless communication system, system information, a UE-specific signaling and a UE group-specific signaling; and

wherein a location of the plurality of bits of the ePDCCH is determined according to at least one of a cell-specific identifier, a subframe index of the subframe, a DL system bandwidth of the wireless communication system, system information, a UE-specific signaling and a UE group-specific signaling.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the amount of resource is a number of resource blocks (RBs) or a number of resource block groups (RBGs).

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ePCFICH is transmitted by a first transmission point of the network, and the ePDCCH is transmitted by a second transmission point of the network.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ePCFICH is transmitted by the network via a first component carrier, and the ePDCCH is transmitted by the network via a second component carrier.

5. A method of indicating a downlink (DL) control channel for a network of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

configuring an enhanced physical control format indicator channel (ePCFICH) according to an amount of resource for transmitting an enhanced physical DL control channel (ePDCCH) of a subframe, wherein the ePDCCH is dedicate to a communication device of the wireless communication system or to a group to which the communication device belongs; and

transmitting the ePCFICH to the communication device in at least one of a punctured part of a physical DL control channel (PDCCH) and a puncture part of a physical DL shared channel (PDSCH) of the subframe, to indicate the amount of the resource for transmitting the ePDCCH to the communication device;

wherein the punctured part of the PDCCH is determined according to at least one of a cell-specific identifier, a subframe index of the subframe, a DL system bandwidth of the wireless communication system, system information, a UE-specific signaling and a UE group-specific signaling;

wherein the punctured part of the PDSCH is determined according to at least one of a cell-specific identifier, a subframe index of the subframe, a DL system bandwidth of the wireless communication system, system information, a UE-specific signaling and a UE group-specific signaling.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the amount of resource is a number of resource blocks (RBs) or a number of resource block groups (RBGs).

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the ePCFICH is transmitted by a first transmission point of the network, and the ePDCCH is transmitted by a second transmission point of the network.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein the ePCFICH is transmitted by the network via a first component carrier, and the ePDCCH is transmitted by the network via a second component carrier.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 15, 2017
From: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
To: ACER INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 043598/0495 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 13, 2013
From: LEE, CHIEN-MIN
To: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 030610/0263 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61659985 · Jun 15, 2012
Related Publication 20130336253A1 · Dec 19, 2013