Patent ID: 11870730
Assignee: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus comprising:
a controller configured to configure a set of short physical downlink control channel candidates; and
a transceiver coupled to the controller, where the transceiver is configured to
transmit a first control signal in a short physical downlink control channel belonging to a first subset of the set of short physical downlink control channel candidates associated with a first set of aggregation levels in a first transmit time interval of a subframe, and
transmit a second control signal in a short physical downlink control channel belonging to a second subset of the set of short physical downlink control channel candidates associated with a second set of aggregation levels in a second transmit time interval of the subframe,

wherein the first subset of the set of short physical downlink control channel candidates and the second subset of the set of short physical downlink control channel candidates are different at least in one short physical downlink control channel candidate,
wherein the first subset of the set of short physical downlink control channel candidates is based on a first index associated with the first transmit time interval within the subframe,
wherein the second subset of the set of short physical downlink control channel candidates is based on a second index associated with the second transmit time interval within the subframe, and
wherein the subframe comprises at least the first and the second transmit time intervals.