Downlink signal reception method and user equipment, and downlink signal transmission method and base station

A user equipment (UE) for receiving a downlink signal, the UE comprising:

• a radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to transmit or receive a signal, and
• a processor configured to control the RF transceiver, the processor configured to:
• control the RF transceiver to receive downlink control information (DCI) including modulation and coding scheme (MCS) information and including resource allocation information indicating one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) allocated to the UE;
• control the RF transceiver to receive downlink data through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) mapped to the PRBs allocated to the UE based on the DCI;
• and
• determine a transport block size of the downlink data among a plurality of predefined transport block sizes, based on the MCS information and a number, NPRB′, of the PRBs, and
• wherein, if the density of downlink reference signals is greater than a reference value, the processor is configured to determine the transport block size based on a number, NPRB, of reduced PRBs rather than on NPRB′,
• wherein NPRB is determined based on a value obtained by multiplying a positive real number less than 1, αby the NPRB′, and
• wherein αis determined based on a ratio, NRE′/NRE, of a number, NRE′, of resource elements excluding resource elements used to receive the downlink reference signals from NRE to a number, NRE, of resource elements excluding resource elements included in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols used to transmit a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from resource elements in a resource block.

A method for transmitting a downlink signal, the method performed by a base station (BS) and comprising:

• determining a transport block size of downlink data among a plurality of predefined transport block sizes according to modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) and the number of physical resource blocks (PRBs);
• transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), downlink control information (DCI) including MCS information for transmission of the downlink data and including resource allocation information indicating PRBs allocated to the UE;
• and
• transmitting the downlink data through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) mapped to the PRBs allocated to the UE according to the DCI,
• wherein, if the density of downlink reference signals is greater than a reference value, the transport block size is determined based on a number, NPRB, of reduced PRBs rather than on a number, NPRB, of the PRBs allocated to the UE,
• wherein NPRB is determined based on a value obtained by multiplying a positive real number less than 1, αby the NPRB′, and
• wherein αis determined based on a ratio, NRE′/NRE, of a number, NRE′, of resource elements excluding resource elements used to receive the downlink reference signals from NRE to a number, NRE of resource elements excluding resource elements included in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols used to transmit a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from resource elements in a resource block.

A base station (BS) for transmitting a downlink signal, the BS comprising:

• a radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to transmit or receive a signal, and
• a processor configured to control the RF transceiver, the processor configured to:
• determine a transport block size of downlink data among a plurality of predefined transport block sizes according to modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) and the number of physical resource blocks (PRBs);
• control the RF transceiver to transmit, to a user equipment (UE), downlink control information (DCI) including MCS information for transmission of the downlink data and including resource allocation information indicating PRBs allocated to the UE;
• and
• control the RF transceiver to transmit the downlink data through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) mapped to the PRBs allocated to the UE according to the DCI, and
• wherein, if the density of downlink reference signals is greater than a reference value, the transport block size is determined based on a number, NPRB, of reduced PRBs rather than on a number, NPRB′, of the PRBs allocated to the UE,
• wherein NPRB is determined based on a value obtained by multiplying a positive real number less than 1, αby the NPRB′, and
• wherein αis determined based on a ratio, NRE′/NRE, of a number, NRE′, of resource elements excluding resource elements used to receive the downlink reference signals from NRE to a number, NRE of resource elements excluding resource elements included in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols used to transmit a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from resource elements in a resource block.