US 2015/0189633 A1Published application

Base station, terminal, transmission method and reception method

AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

InventorsToru Oizumi, Seigo Nakao, Ayako Horiuchi

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Abstract

In the base station (100), a search space setting unit (103) sets a search space on the basis of a search space setting rule in accordance with R-PDCCH range of a setting target slot, and an allocating unit (108) places DCI in one of a plurality of candidates of to-be-decoded unit range included in the set search space. The search space setting rules are associated with respective numbers of candidates of to-be-decoded unit range corresponding to the respective ones of a plurality of numbers of connections for R-CCE, and a first search space setting rule of a slot 0 and a second search space setting rule of a slot 1 are different from each other in terms of the patterns related to the numbers of candidates of to-be-decoded unit range corresponding to the plurality of numbers of connections for R-CCE.

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Dependent claims

A transmission apparatus comprising:

a configuration section configured to configure a first search space according to a first search space configuration rule or to configure a second search space according to a second search space configuration rule, wherein the first search space configuration rule defines a number of first decoding region candidates corresponding to first control channel element (CCE) aggregation levels, and the second search space configuration rule defines a number of second decoding region candidates corresponding to second CCE aggregation levels, wherein the second CCE aggregation levels overlap with the first CCE aggregation levels and include at least one aggregation level smaller than any of the first CCE aggregation levels;
a mapping section configured to map downlink control information on one of a plurality of decoding region candidates included in the first search space or on one of a plurality of decoding region candidates included in the second search space, each decoding region candidate being composed of a CCE or a plurality of aggregated CCEs with one of the first or second CCE aggregation levels defined by the first or second search space configuration rules,
wherein a number of resource elements (REs) that compose one CCE according to the first search space configuration rule is smaller than that of the second search space configuration rule,
a weighted average of CCE aggregation levels with respect to the number of the decoding region candidates according to the first search space configuration rule is greater than that of the second search space configuration rule, and
the weighted average is calculated by dividing a sum of the products of CCE aggregation levels and corresponding number of decoding region candidates by a sum of the number of decoding region candidates for each search space configuration rule;
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a transmitting section configured to transmit a signal including the mapped downlink control signal.

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A transmission method comprising:

configuring a first search space according to a first search space configuration rule or configuring a second search space according to a second search space configuration rule, wherein the first search space configuration rule defines a number of first decoding region candidates corresponding to first control channel element (CCE) aggregation levels, and the second search space configuration rule defines a number of second decoding region candidates corresponding to second CCE aggregation levels, wherein the second CCE aggregation levels overlap with the first CCE aggregation levels and include at least one aggregation level smaller than any of the first CCE aggregation levels;
mapping downlink control information on one of a plurality of decoding region candidates included in the first search space or on one of a plurality of decoding region candidates included in the second search space, each decoding region candidate being composed of a CCE or a plurality of aggregated CCEs with one of the first or second CCE aggregation levels defined by the first or second search space configuration rules,
wherein a number of resource elements (REs) that compose one CCE according to the first search space configuration rule is smaller than that of the second search space configuration rule,
a weighted average of CCE aggregation levels with respect to the number of the decoding region candidates according to the first search space configuration rule is greater than that of the second search space configuration rule, and
the weighted average is calculated by dividing a sum of the products of CCE aggregation levels and corresponding number of decoding region candidates by a sum of the number of decoding region candidates for each search space configuration rule;
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transmitting a signal including the mapped downlink control signal.

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Facts

Application: 14/656,245Filed 12 Mar 2015
Priority: JP 2010-16430921 Jul 2010
Published: 2 Jul 2015
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Classification11 codes

H04W 72/23
Control channels or signalling for resource management: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
H04L 5/001
The frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM or DMT: the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
H04L 5/0053
Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path: allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
H04L 5/0094
Signalling for the administration of the divided path, e.g. signalling of configuration information: indication of how sub-channels of the path…

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