Wireless Communication Control Channel Apparatus and Method

A method for decoding, comprising:

• receiving, through a wireless communication, a first control channel element associated with a control channel element index value
• receiving, through a wireless communication, a second control channel element associated with a second control channel element index value;
• selecting a first reference signal sequence associated with at least one antenna port (AP) for reception of a single control channel based on the lowest control channel index value of the first control channel element index value of the first control channel element and the second control channel element index value of the second control channel element;
• and
• detecting a resource element of at least one resource block (RB) using the first reference signal sequence to decode the first control channel element and the second control channel element.