Patent ID: 9380573
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising the steps of: receiving, by a receiver, dedicated control information (DCI) destined for the receiver from a base station in a resource block (RB) contained in selected RB candidates selected by the base station, the RB being a unit for data allocation in a combination of time and frequency domains of radio resources, the DCI including modulation and coding information of a data packet transmitted on a shared data channel (SDCH) destined for the receiver from the base station, wherein the RB includes a control region and a data region, and the DCI is located in the data region that follows the control region in a time domain; monitoring, by the receiver, the selected RB candidates to attempt to decode the DCI destined for the receiver; and obtaining the data packet corresponding to the successfully decoded DCI.