Patent ID: 9253770
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of performing a process of determining a control channel assignment for a control channel, by a user equipment for which a carrier indicator field is configured in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: monitoring a common search space containing a control channel candidate set for the control channel on a specific carrier; and monitoring a user equipment-specific search space containing the control channel candidate set for the control channel on the specific carrier, wherein if the user equipment is configured to monitor a plurality of control channel candidates having an identical radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), an identical information size, an identical first control channel resource, and different sets of downlink control channel information (DCI) fields in the common search space and the user equipment-specific search space, the plurality of control channel candidates are received in the common search space only.