Patent ID: 9572146
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for receiving a downlink signal from a base station by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving first information and second information from the base station, the first information indicating L subframes (where L is a positive integer) available for transmission of a downlink control signal for the user equipment among a plurality of subframes corresponding to a prescribed duration and the second information indicating a maximum number Np of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes (where Np is a positive integer not greater than L) supported for the user equipment; and performing blind decoding for detecting the downlink control signal only in the L subframes indicated by the first information among the plurality of subframes, wherein, if the number of subframes in which the downlink control signal is detected becomes Np in a subframe group consisting of K consecutive subframes (where K is a positive integer greater than L) starting from a subframe in which the downlink control signal is detected, the blind decoding is omitted in a remaining subframe of the subframe group.