Patent ID: 11930505
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and
one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
transmitting, to a terminal device, information about a control resource set, wherein the control resource set consists of K resource blocks (RBs) in frequency domain and one or more symbols in time domain, the K RBs and the one or more symbols form M resource element groups (REGs), each of the M REGs consists of one RB and one symbol, and wherein indexes of the M REGs are obtained by numbering the M REGs consecutively in an increasing order in a time-first manner;
determining one or more control channel elements (CCEs) for a control channel, wherein a quantity of REGs included in any of one or more first REG bundles is L, wherein K, M, and L are positive integers, and wherein K>1; and
transmitting the control channel using the one or more CCEs, wherein:
when L=3, any of the one or more first REG bundles consists of three consecutive symbols in time domain and one REG in frequency domain; and
when L=6, any of the one or more first REG bundles consists of one symbol in time domain and six REGs in frequency domain, two consecutive symbols in time domain and three REGs in frequency domain, or three consecutive symbols in time domain and two REGs in frequency domain.