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US 9,883,497 · App. 14/386,881 · Granted Jan 30, 2018

Control signaling transmission and detection methods, base station, and terminal

Inventors: Yijian Chen (Shenzhen, CN); Bo Dai (Shenzhen, CN); Zhisong Zuo (Shenzhen, CN); Jun Xu (Shenzhen, CN)

Assignee: ZTE Corporation

H04W72/042 H04L5/0048 H04L5/0053 H04L5/22 H04L27/26 H04W56/001 H04W72/005 H04W72/14 H04L5/0023 H04L5/1469

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Patent No.: US 9,883,497
App. No.: 14/386,881
Granted: Jan 30, 2018
Kind: B2

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Abstract

A control signaling transmission method, a control signaling detection method, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The transmission method includes: a base station determining an enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) resource region of the terminal in a current subframe according to at least one of multiple parameters, and transmitting control signaling to the terminal on some or all of the resources in the ePDCCH resource region. The above technical scheme can adapt to the dynamically-changing transmission capabilities of subframes, improves the transmission performance of the control signaling on an ePDCCH, increases the accuracy of the terminal in searching for the control signaling, and conserves terminal consumption. Therefore, the present document has a great industrial applicability.

Claims (71)

1. A control signaling transmission method, comprising:

determining, by a base station, a plurality sets of candidate enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) resource regions;

notifying, by the base station, one set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and a preset rule to the terminal, to make the terminal determine one or more other sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to the notified set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and the preset rule, wherein the determined one or more other sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and the notified set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions in the terminal are the same with the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions in the base station;

determining, by the base station, one set of ePDCCH resource regions of the terminal in a current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to at least one of the following parameters; and

transmitting, by the base station, control signaling to the terminal on some or all of the resources in the determined one set of the ePDCCH resource regions;

so that, after the terminal receives the control signaling transmitted by the base station, the terminal detects the received control signaling in the same set of ePDCCH resource regions which is selected from the received one set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and the determined one or more other sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions by the terminal according to the same parameter(s); and

wherein, the parameters include: a number of Resource Elements (REs) available for carrying control information in a resource block in the current subframe; a number of REs available for carrying control information in an enhanced Control Channel Element (eCCE) in the current subframe; a number of REs available for carrying control information in an enhanced Resource Element Group (eREG) in the current subframe; an aggregation level configuration needed to be detected by the terminal; a type of an ePDCCH transmission mode for transmitting the control signaling to the terminal, comprising: a single beamforming transmission mode, a spatial diversity transmission mode, a centralized transmission mode, a distributed transmission mode; a subframe type of the current subframe; a pilot transmission condition in the current subframe; a synchronization signal transmission condition in the current subframe; a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) transmission condition in the current subframe; and a subframe number of the current subframe.

2. The transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein, the step of determining, by a base station, one set of ePDCCH resource region of the terminal in a current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to at least one of the parameters comprises:

determining, by the base station, one set of ePDCCH resource region of the terminal in the current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to at least two of the parameters.

3. The transmission method according to claim 2 , wherein,

the at least two of the parameters comprise the subframe number of the current subframe.

4. The transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein, the subframe type of the current subframe at least comprises one of the following types:

a Time Division Multiplexing (TDD) special subframe type, a non-TDD special subframe type, a cyclic prefix type, a multicast broadcast single frequency network subframe type, a non-multicast broadcast single frequency network subframe type.

5. The transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein, the pilot transmission condition in the current subframe at least comprises one of the following conditions:

an overhead size of a Common Reference Signal (CRS) in the current subframe, an overhead size of a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) in the current subframe, and an overhead size of a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) in the current subframe.

6. The transmission method according to claim 1 ,

wherein, there are overlapped resources in the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions;

when there are two sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions, the two sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions are in a subset relationship; and

when there are three sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions, an union set of a third set of candidate ePDCCH resource region and a second set of candidate ePDCCH resource region is equal to a first set of candidate ePDCCH resource region.

7. A base station, comprising a processor and a storage device, wherein the storage device stores processor-executable programs, and the programs comprise an enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) resource region determination module and a transmission module, wherein,

the ePDCCH resource region determination module is configured to:

determine a plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions,

notify one set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and a preset rule to the terminal, to make the terminal determine one or more other sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to the notified set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and the preset rule, wherein the determined one or more other sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and the notified set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions in the terminal are the same with the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions in the base station, and

determine one set of ePDCCH resource regions of the terminal in a current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to at least one of the following parameters; and

the transmission module is configured to transmit control signaling to the terminal on some or all of the resources in the determined one set of the ePDCCH resource regions;

8. The base station according to claim 7 , wherein, the ePDCCH resource region determination module is configured to determine one set of ePDCCH resource region of the terminal in a current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions by means of:

determining one set of ePDCCH resource region of the terminal in the current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to at least two of the parameters;

wherein, the at least two of the parameters comprise the subframe number of the current subframe.

9. A control signaling detection method, wherein,

receiving, by a terminal, one set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and a preset rule from a base station, and determining one or more other sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to the received set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and the preset rule, wherein the determined one or more other sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and the received set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions in the terminal are the same with a plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions in the base station;

determining, by the terminal, one set of ePDCCH resource regions of the terminal in a current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to at least one of the following parameters; and

detecting, by the terminal, control signaling on some or all of the resources in the determined one set of ePDCCH resource regions which is same as a set of ePDCCH resource region determined by the base station according to the same parameter(s);

10. The detection method according to claim 9 , wherein, the step of determining, by the terminal, one set of ePDCCH resource region of the terminal in a current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to at least one of the parameters comprises:

determining, by the terminal, one set of ePDCCH resource region of the terminal in the current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to at least two of the parameters.

11. The detection method according to claim 10 , wherein,

the at least two of the parameters comprise the subframe number of the current subframe.

12. The detection method according to claim 9 , wherein,

the resource block is a physical resource block pair or a virtual resource block.

13. The detection method according to claim 9 , wherein, the subframe type of the current subframe at least comprises one of the following types:

14. The detection method according to claim 9 , wherein, the pilot transmission condition in the current subframe at least comprises one of the following conditions:

15. The detection method according to claim 9 ,

wherein, there are overlapped resources in the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions;

when there are two sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions, the two sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions are in a subset relationship; and

16. A terminal, comprising a processor and a storage device, wherein the storage device stores processor-executable programs, and the programs comprise an enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) resource region determination module and a detection module, wherein,

the ePDCCH resource region determination module is configured to:

receive one set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and a preset rule from a base station, and determine one or more other sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to the received set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and the preset rule, wherein the determined one or more other sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions and the received set of candidate ePDCCH resource regions in the terminal are the same with a plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions in the base station;

the detection module is configured to detect control signaling on some or all of the resources in the determined one set of ePDCCH resource regions which is same as a set of ePDCCH resource region determined by the base station according to the same parameter(s);

17. The terminal according to claim 16 , wherein, the ePDCCH resource region determination module is configured to determine one set of ePDCCH resource region of the terminal in a current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions by means of:

determining one set of ePDCCH resource region of the terminal in the current subframe from the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions according to at least two of the parameters.

18. The terminal according to claim 17 , wherein,

the at least two of the parameters comprise the subframe number of the current subframe.

19. The terminal according to claim 16 , wherein,

the resource block is a physical resource block pair or a virtual resource block,

or,

wherein, the subframe type of the current subframe at least comprises one of the following types:

or,

wherein, the pilot transmission condition in the current subframe at least comprises one of the following conditions:

20. The terminal according to claim 16 ,

wherein, there are overlapped resources in the plurality sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions;

when there are two sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions, the two sets of candidate ePDCCH resource regions are in a subset relationship; and

Assignments (1)

ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 23, 2014

From: CHEN, YIJIAN; DAI, BO; ZUO, ZHISONG; XU, JUN

To: ZTE CORPORATION

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Priority Claims (1)

CN 2012 1 0275429 · Aug 3, 2012 · national

Continuity (1)

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