IP Library Granted Patent US 9,490,951
Granted Patent B2
US 9,490,951 · App. 14/131,871 · Granted Nov 8, 2016

Method and device for setting a control channel and a data channel in a wireless communication system

Inventors: Dong Youn Seo (Anyang-si, KR); Joon Kui Ahn (Anyang-si, KR); Suck Chel Yang (Anyang-si, KR); Han Byul Seo (Anyang-si, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04L5/0053H04L5/001H04L5/0044H04L5/0091H04L27/2601H04L5/0051H04L5/0064
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Patent No.
US 9,490,951
App. No.
14/131,871
Granted
Nov 8, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for configuring a starting position of a control channel in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the same. The method includes receiving duration information about a physical downlink control channel from the first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a downlink subframe; and configuring a first OFDM symbol after OFDM symbols indicated by the duration information, as a starting point of an enhanced-physical downlink control channel. The downlink subframe includes a plurality of subcarriers in a frequency domain and 12 or 14 OFDM symbols in a time domain. The PDCCH includes the first N (N is a natural number of from 1 to 4) number of OFDM symbols of the downlink subframe. The duration information indicates the N number of OFDM symbols. The E-PDCCH comprises the starting point to the last OFDM symbol of the downlink subframe.

Claims (16)

1. A method for configuring a starting position of channel, performed by a User Equipment, UE, in a time domain in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

upon receiving position information informing of a starting position of an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control CHannel, EPDCCH, through a Radio Resource Control, RRC, message, determining, by the UE, a starting Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, symbol of the EPDCCH based on the position information,

wherein if a Physical Downlink Shared Channel, PDSCH, is determined to have been assigned by the EPDCCH in a same serving cell, a starting OFDM symbol for the PDSCH corresponds to the starting OFDM symbol of the EPDCCH indicated by the received position information; and

when no position information informing of a starting position of the EPDCCH is received through RRC messaging, recognizing, by the UE, as the start point of the EPDCCH an OFDM symbol next to a Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, region checked through a Physical Control Format Indicator Channel, PCFICH.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the position information indicates an OFDM symbol in a subframe comprising a plurality of OFDM symbols.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the EPDCCH is demodulated by a Demodulation Reference Signal, DM RS.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein if the PDSCH is assigned by the EPDCCH in a different serving cell, the starting OFDM symbol for the PDSCH is set by information other than the received position information.

5. A User Equipment UE, the UE comprising:

a Radio Frequency, RF, unit configured to transmit and receive radio signals; and

a processor connected to the RF unit, wherein the processor is configured to:

upon receiving position information informing of a starting position of an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control CHannel, EPDCCH, through a Radio Resource Control, RRC, message, t-e-determine a starting Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, symbol of the EPDCCH based on the position information,

wherein if a Physical Downlink Shared Channel, PDSCH, is determined to have been assigned by the EPDCCH in a same serving cell, a starting OFDM symbol for the PDSCH corresponds to the starting OFDM symbol of the EPDCCH indicated by the received position information; and

when no position information informing of a starting position of the EPDCCH is received through RRC messaging, to recognize as the start point of an EPDCCH an OFDM symbol next to a Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, region checked through a Physical Control Format Indicator Channel, PCFICH.

6. The UE of claim 5 , wherein the position information indicates an OFDM symbol in a subframe comprising a plurality of OFDM symbols.

7. The UE of claim 5 , wherein the EPDCCH is demodulated by a Demodulation Reference Signal, DM RS.

8. The UE of claim 5 , wherein if the PDSCH is assigned by the EPDCCH in a different serving cell, the starting OFDM symbol for the PDSCH is set by information other than the received position information.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 15, 2020
From: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
To: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1
Reel/Frame 054658/0843 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 9, 2014
From: SEO, DONG YOUN; AHN, JOON KUI; YANG, SUCK CHEL; SEO, HAN BYUL
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 031957/0763 →
Continuity (4)
Provisional Application 61508019 · Jul 14, 2011
Provisional Application 61538119 · Sep 22, 2011
Provisional Application 61554965 · Nov 2, 2011
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