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US 9,867,173 · App. 14/415,099 · Granted Jan 9, 2018

Method and apparatus for receiving downlink signal in wireless communication system

Inventors: Inkwon Seo (Anyang-si, KR); Hanbyul Seo (Anyang-si, KR); Hakseong Kim (Anyang-si, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W72/042H04L5/001H04L5/0053H04L5/0023H04L5/0048
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Patent No.
US 9,867,173
App. No.
14/415,099
Granted
Jan 9, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for enabling a terminal to receive a downlink signal through an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH), comprising the steps of: decoding fallback downlink control information (DCI) format in an EPDCCH physical resource block set; and receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on the basis of the fallback DCI format, wherein the PDSCH transmission for receiving the PDSCH is determined according to whether the EPDCCH physical resource block set corresponds to localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission.

Claims (21)

1. A method for enabling a user equipment to receive a downlink signal through an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

decoding a fallback downlink control information (DCI) format in an EPDCCH physical resource block set;

determining whether the EPDCCH physical resource block set is set to localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission,

wherein a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission scheme for receiving a PDSCH is determined as a single antenna port, when the EPDCCH physical resource block set is determined as the localized EPDCCH transmission, and when a first PDSCH transmission scheme indicator is set to a first value, and

wherein the PDSCH transmission scheme is determined based on any of a plurality of transmission modes, when the EPDCCH physical resource block set is determined as the distributed EPDCCH transmission, and when a second PDSCH transmission scheme indicator is set to a second value, and

receiving the PDSCH on a basis of the fallback DCI format and the determined PDSCH transmission scheme.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the single antenna port is an antenna port used for EPDCCH transmission related to the fallback DCI format.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the single antenna port is a representative one of a plurality of antenna ports allocated to an enhanced control channel element (ECCE) related to the fallback DCI format.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the single antenna port is related to a demodulation reference signal.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the single antenna port is antenna port 7.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the EPDCCH and the PDSCH are transmitted on a same carrier.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first PDSCH transmission scheme indicator is separate from or the same as the second PDSCH transmission scheme indicator.

8. A user equipment in a wireless communication system, the user equipment comprising:

a reception module; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to:

decode a fallback downlink control information (DCI) format in an EPDCCH physical resource block set,

determine whether the EPDCCH physical resource block set is set to localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPDCCH transmission,

wherein a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission scheme for receiving a PDSCH is determined as a single antenna port, when the EPDCCH physical resource block set is determined as the localized EPDCCH transmission, and when a first PDSCH transmission scheme indicator is set to a first value, and

wherein the PDSCH transmission scheme is determined based on any of a plurality of transmission modes, when the EPDCCH physical resource block set is determined as the distributed EPDCCH transmission, and when a second PDSCH transmission scheme indicator is set to a second value, and

control the reception module to receive the PDSCH on a basis of the fallback DCI format and the determined PDSCH transmission scheme.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 15, 2015
From: SEO, INKWON; SEO, HANBYUL; KIM, HAKSEONG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 034730/0327 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61676343 · Jul 27, 2012
Related Publication 20150189629A1 · Jul 2, 2015