Patent ID: 9490951
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for configuring a starting position of channel, performed by a User Equipment, UE, in a time domain in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: upon receiving position information informing of a starting position of an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control CHannel, EPDCCH, through a Radio Resource Control, RRC, message, determining, by the UE, a starting Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, symbol of the EPDCCH based on the position information, wherein if a Physical Downlink Shared Channel, PDSCH, is determined to have been assigned by the EPDCCH in a same serving cell, a starting OFDM symbol for the PDSCH corresponds to the starting OFDM symbol of the EPDCCH indicated by the received position information; and when no position information informing of a starting position of the EPDCCH is received through RRC messaging, recognizing, by the UE, as the start point of the EPDCCH an OFDM symbol next to a Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, region checked through a Physical Control Format Indicator Channel, PCFICH.