Patent ID: 9560643
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A base station apparatus configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus, the base station apparatus comprising: a higher layer processor configured or programmed to configure a resource block set for the terminal apparatus to monitor an enhanced physical downlink control channel; and a transmitter configured to transmit the enhanced physical downlink control channel using one or more resources; wherein the resource block set includes a plurality of resource block pairs; each of the plurality of resource block pairs includes numbered resource element groups; the enhanced physical downlink control channel is transmitted using either a first transmission or a second transmission on a basis of information configured by a higher layer; for the first transmission, each of the one or more resources consists of N resource element groups in a single resource block pair within the plurality of resource block pairs, each of the N resource element groups being one of the numbered resource element groups; for the second transmission, each of the one or more resources consists of M resource element groups in more than one resource block pair within the plurality of resource block pairs, each of the M resource element groups being one of the numbered resource element groups; and N and M have equal integer values.