IP Library Granted Patent US 10,542,531
Granted Patent B2
US 10,542,531 · App. 15/842,369 · Granted Jan 21, 2020

Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink control channel in wireless communication system

Inventors: Tae-Hyoung Kim (Seoul, KR); Yong-Jun Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Dong-Han Kim (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Young-Bum Kim (Seoul, KR); Seung-Hoon Choi (Gyeonggi-do, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
H04W72/042H04L1/0009H04L5/0048H04W88/02
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Patent No.
US 10,542,531
App. No.
15/842,369
Granted
Jan 21, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a 5G or a pre-5G communication system provided to support a higher data transmission rate than a 4G communication system such as LTE. A method and an apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting, on a first resource region, a detection signal indicating that a downlink control channel is transmitted; and transmitting a signal of the downlink control channel on a search space related to the first resource region.

Claims (40)

1. A method of transmitting a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

setting a length of a detection sequence based on an aggregation level for the downlink control channel;

generating a first detection signal including the detection sequence;

transmitting, on a first resource region, the first detection signal indicating that the downlink control channel is transmitted, among a plurality of detection signals;

allocating the downlink control channel to a resource based on the first resource region; and

transmitting a signal of the downlink control channel on the resource in a search space,

wherein the length of the detection sequence is set to be long for a high aggregation level of the downlink control channel, and is set to be short for a low aggregation level of the downlink control channel.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first detection signal includes one of a common sequence and a user equipment (UE)-specific reference signal sequence used for decoding the downlink control channel.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first resource region is included in the search space or is allocated outside the search space.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), at least one of configuration information of the first detection signal, configuration information of a sequence of the first detection signal, and setting information of a threshold value used for detecting the first detection signal.

5. A method of receiving a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

determining whether a first detection signal among a plurality of detection signals, which indicates that a downlink control channel is transmitted, is received on a first resource region from a base station; and

when the detection signal is determined as being receive on the first resource region, performing blind decoding of the downlink control channel received on a resource in a search space, the resource determined based on the first resource region,

wherein each of the plurality of detection signals includes a detection sequence, which is set by the based station based on an aggregation level for the downlink control channel, and

wherein the length of the detection sequence is set to be long for a high aggregation level of the downlink control channel, and is set to be short for a low aggregation level of the downlink control channel.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the first detection signal includes one of a common sequence, and a UE-specific reference signal sequence used for decoding the downlink control channel.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the first resource region is included in the search space or allocated outside the search space.

8. The method of claim 5 , further comprising receiving, from the base station, at least one of configuration information of the first detection signal, configuration information of a sequence of the first detection signal, and setting information of a threshold value used for detecting the first detection signal.

9. An apparatus of a base station that transmits a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor configured to:

set a length of a detection sequence based on an aggregation level for the downlink control channel,

generate a first detection signal including the detection sequence,

control the transceiver to transmit the first detection signal indicating that a downlink control channel is transmitted, among a plurality of detection signals, on a first resource region,

allocate the downlink control channel to a resource based on the first resource region,

generate a signal of the downlink control channel, and

control the transceiver to transmit the downlink control channel on the resource in a search space,

wherein the length of the detection sequence is set to be long for a high aggregation level of the downlink control channel, and is set to be short for a low aggregation level of the downlink control channel.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the first detection signal includes one of a common sequence and a user equipment (UE)-specific reference signal sequence used for decoding the downlink control channel.

11. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the first resource region is included in the search space or is allocated outside the search space.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the transceiver transmits, to a user equipment (UE), at least one of configuration information of the first detection signal, configuration information of a sequence of the first detection signal, and setting information of a threshold value used for detecting the first detection signal.

13. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) that receives a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive a signal on a radio channel; and

a processor configured to:

determine whether a first detection signal among a plurality of detection signals, which indicates that a downlink control channel is transmitted, is received on a first resource region based on the received signal from a base station, and

when the detection signal is determined as being received on the first resource region, perform blind decoding of the downlink control channel received on a resource in a search space, the resource being determined based on the first resource region, wherein each of the plurality of detection signals includes a detection sequence which is set by the based station based on an aggregation level for the downlink control channel, and

wherein the length of the detection sequence is set to be long for a high aggregation level of the downlink control channel, and is set to be short for a low aggregation level of the downlink control channel.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the first detection signal includes one of a common sequence, and a UE-specific reference signal sequence used for decoding the downlink control channel.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the first resource region is included in the search space or allocated outside the search space.

16. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the transceiver receives, from the base station, at least one of configuration information of the first detection signal, configuration information of a sequence of the first detection signal, and setting information of a threshold value used for detecting the first detection signal.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 29, 2024
From: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
To: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Reel/Frame 067260/0224 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 29, 2017
From: KIM, TAE-HYOUNG; KWAK, YONG-JUN; KIM, DONG-HAN; KIM, YOUNG-BUM; CHOI, SEUNG-HOON
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 044504/0151 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2016-0170605 · Dec 14, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
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