Patent ID: 9300393
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for a base station to transmit control information to a relay station and to user equipment, comprising: encoding, by the base station, first downlink control information appended with a first plurality of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits into a first group of control channel elements (CCEs), the first downlink control information indicating resource allocation for the relay station, wherein the first group of CCEs comprises one of 3 CCEs, 5 CCEs, 6 CCEs, and 7 CCEs; encoding, by the base station, second downlink control information appended with a second plurality of CRC bits into a second group of CCEs, the second downlink control information indicating resource allocation for the user equipment, wherein the second group of CCEs comprises one of 1 CCE, 2 CCEs, 4 CCEs, and 8 CCEs; transmitting, by the base station, the encoded first downlink control information and the encoded second downlink control information in a same subframe.