Patent ID: 9232520
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A machine type communication (MTC) support method performed in a base station, comprising: allocating physical channels of MTC user equipment (UE), including information about a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols occupied by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of a station, to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region between the base station and the MTC UE, to transmit data to the MTC UE; and transmitting, at the physical channels of the MTC UE, an allocated subframe, wherein the allocating the physical channels of the MTC UE includes cyclic-shifting a predetermined MTC-physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) code according to a control format indicator (CFI) for the station, and allocating an MTC-PCFICH using the cyclic-shifted MTC-PCFICH code.