Patent ID: 9674826
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method for wireless communication by a base station, the method comprising: receiving, from a terminal, a channel quality indicator (CQI); determining at least one control channel element (CCE) for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) based on the received CQI and an identifier (ID) of the terminal; and transmitting, to the terminal, control information on the PDCCH including the determined at least one CCE, wherein the PDCCH is selected as a control channel candidate from among a set of control channel candidates, wherein the set of control channel candidates is determined based on the ID of the terminal, and wherein a number of the at least one CCE is determined to be one, two, four, or eight based on the CQI.