Patent ID: 9516636
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for transmitting a downlink control channel by a base station to a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting, by the base station, enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) allocation resource information, through a RRC (Radio Resource Control) message, indicating E-PDCCH resource regions in which one or more E-PDCCHs can be transmitted to the UE; transmitting, by the base station, the one or more E-PDCCHs to the UE, wherein each of the one or more E-PDCCHs includes downlink control information (DCI) on a first E-PDCCH resource region, wherein a valid physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) allocation resource region for the UE is a resource region that excludes the first E-PDCCH resource region, and wherein the first E-PDCCH resource region is identified by blind decoding by the UE, and wherein the DCI of each of the one or more E-PDCCHs includes information on a second E-PDCCH resource region other than the first E-PDCCH resource region.