Patent ID: 9596678
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A communication apparatus comprising: a receiver which, in operation, receives downlink control information transmitted using both of a first resource region and a second resource region included in a subframe or using only the second resource region, the first resource region being available for a downlink control channel and a downlink data channel, the second resource region being available for the downlink control channel; and a decoder which, in operation, identifies both of the first resource region and the second resource region or only the second resource region as a region for decoding, and decodes the identified first and second resource regions or the identified second resource region to obtain the downlink control information, wherein the decoder decodes only the second resource region in a special subframe having a gap period for switching between a downlink and an uplink in a time division duplex (TDD).