Patent ID: 9414263
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of adjusting a blind decoding of a downlink control channel in a base station, the method comprising: creating an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) using the number of EPDCCH candidates per aggregation level (AL) in each of one or more EPDCCH sets for user equipment; and transmitting the created EPDCCH to the user equipment, wherein the number of EPDCCH candidates is determined based on at least one of (i) a resource size associated with configuration of each EPDCCH set and (ii) the total number of EPDCCH sets; wherein the resource size is the number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) forming each EPDCCH set; and wherein in a case of two or more EPDCCH sets, the number of EPDCCH candidates per aggregation level (AL) in each EPDCCH set is determined based on the number of PRBs forming one EPDCCH set and the number of PRBs forming total EPDCCH sets.