IP Library Granted Patent US 10,448,412
Granted Patent B2
US 10,448,412 · App. 15/543,197 · Granted Oct 15, 2019

Method whereby user equipment receives downlink control information in wireless communication system, and device therefor

Inventors: Seungmin Lee (Seoul, KR); Suckchel Yang (Seoul, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Seoul, KR); Seonwook Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Patent No.
US 10,448,412
App. No.
15/543,197
Granted
Oct 15, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a method whereby user equipment (UE) receives downlink control information in a wireless communication system and UE using the method. The method comprises: receiving configuration information (MUCC-DCI configuration information) on multi-carrier downlink control information (MUCC-DCI) that may include pieces of scheduling information related to multiple serving cells; and performing blind decoding (BD) on the MUCC-DCI in a shared search space (shared SS) determined on the basis of the MUCC-DCI configuration information.

Claims (24)

1. A method for receiving downlink control information (DCI) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving at least one of single-carrier downlink control information (SICC-DCI) which schedules only one serving cell or multi-carrier downlink control information (MUCC-DCI) which simultaneously schedules multiple serving cells in a subframe; and

blind-decoding the at least one of the SICC-DCI or the MUCC-DCI,

wherein the SICC-DCI is received in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) region located at first N (N is a natural number) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of the subframe,

wherein the MUCC-DCI is received in an enhanced PDCCH (EPDCCH) region located at OFDM symbols following the first N OFDM symbols of the subframe,

wherein, when the UE receives both the SICC-DCI and the MUCC-DCI in the subframe, the UE discards the SICC-DCI and regards the MUCC-DCI as valid.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the MUCC-DCI and the SICC-DCI are configured to have the same bit size.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE blind-decodes only MUCC-DCI on a shared search space (SS).

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE blind-decodes the SICC-DCI in a shared search space (SS) in the PDCCH region.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein aggregation level (AL) candidates when the MUCC-DCI is blind-decoded and AL candidates when the SICC-DCI is blind-decoded are configured to be different from each other.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the number of times of blind decoding in each AL when the MUCC-DCI is blind-decoded and the number of times of blind decoding in each AL when the SICC-DCI is blind-decoded are configured to be different.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the MUCC-DCI includes only downlink grant as downlink scheduling information.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the MUCC-DCI includes only uplink grant as uplink scheduling information.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the MUCC-DCI is longer than a CRC of the SICC-DCI.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in order to detect the MUCC-DCI, the UE performs blind decoding per aggregation level (AL) a predetermined number of times in a shared search space (SS).

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the number of times of blind decoding previously determined per AL is re-set.

12. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a transceiver transmitting and receiving a radio signal; and

a processor connected to the transceiver, wherein the processor:

receives at least one of single-carrier downlink control information (SICC-DCI) which schedules only one serving cell or multi-carrier downlink control information (MUCC-DCI) which simultaneously schedules multiple serving cells in a subframe, and

blind-decodes at least one of the SICC-DCI or the MUCC-DCI,

wherein the SICC-DCI is received in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) region located at first N (N is a natural number) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of the subframe,

wherein the MUCC-DCI is received in an enhanced PDCCH (EPDCCH) region located at OFDM symbols following the first N OFDM symbols of the subframe, and

wherein, when the processor receives both the SICC-DCI and the MUCC-DCI in the subframe, the processor discards the SICC-DCI and regards the MUCC-DCI as valid.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 12, 2017
From: LEE, SEUNGMIN; YANG, SUCKCHEL; AHN, JOONKUI; KIM, SEONWOOK
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC
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