Patent ID: 9591635
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for searching an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) channel, the method comprising: receiving a subframe; computing, by a user equipment (UE), an offset based on a UE identifier (ID) of the UE, the offset being computed directly by the UE instead of being received via control signaling from a base station; identifying, in accordance with the offset, a starting location in a search space of the UE, wherein the search space of the UE corresponds to resource elements in the subframe; and locating, by the UE, one or more resource elements in the search space of the UE, the one or more resource elements beginning from the starting location in the search space and including a subset of the resources elements in the subframe.