Patent ID: 9591636
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for receiving control information in a user equipment (UE), the method comprising: receiving higher layer signaling associated with a physical resource block (PRB) for enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH); receiving the control information on the EPDCCH of which transmission starts in a first starting orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol determined by the higher layer signaling, if the first starting OFDM symbol is configured by the higher layer signaling; and receiving the control information on the EPDCCH of which transmission starts in a second starting OFDM symbol determined by a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH), if the first starting OFDM symbol is not configured by the higher layer signaling, wherein the control information is received by using a number of enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs) in a downlink (DL) subframe, and wherein a search space in which the number of ECCEs are monitored is determined according to a UE-dedicated search space (UE-DSS).