Patent ID: 9497737
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for searching for a control channel by a user equipment (UE) in a multi-node system, the method comprising: configuring a first common search space (CSS) and a second CSS, which are distinguishable, in a subframe including a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; searching for control information from at least one of the first CSS and the second CSS; and upon locating the control information, communicating with another device in accordance with the located control information, wherein first control information cyclic redundancy check (CRC)-scrambled with a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) belonging to a first RNTI set is searched from the first CSS and second control information CRC-scrambled with an RNTI belonging to a second RNTI set is searched from the second CSS, wherein the first CSS is configured within a control region composed of a first N (N is a natural number of any one of 1 to 4) number of OFDM symbols in the subframe, and the second CSS is configured in a data region composed of the other remaining OFDM symbols of the subframe, wherein a resource region in which the second control information is received includes a non-interleaving region including local radio resources and an interleaving region including distributed radio resources, and the second CSS is set in the interleaving region, wherein a first UE-specific search space (USS), a second USS, and a third USS are additionally configured to search for control information specific to the UE, wherein the first USS is configured in the control region, the second USS is configured in the interleaving region, and the third USS is configured in the non-interleaving region, and wherein information indicating any one of the first USS, the second USS, and the third USS is received through a higher layer signal, and control information CRC-scrambled with a specific RNTI is searched from the USS indicated by the higher layer signal and the second CSS.