Patent ID: 9602255
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for operating a communications controller, the method comprising: allocating, by the communications controller, a first set of resource elements within a legacy control region of a subframe to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); allocating, by the communications controller, a second set of resource blocks to an enhanced physical downlink shared channel (ePDSCH), wherein the resource blocks comprise respective resource elements; allocating, by the communications controller, a third set of resource blocks to an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH), wherein the third set of resource blocks comprises resource elements of a data region of the subframe, and wherein the ePDCCH has a first starting point; allocating, by the communications controller, a fourth set of resource blocks within the data region to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); identifying, by the communications controller, a starting point for the respective resource elements of the second set of resource blocks of the ePDSCH, the starting point of the ePDSCH located within the legacy control region and overlapping in time with control channel information in the legacy control region, wherein the first starting point of the ePDCCH is located within the legacy control region, and wherein the starting point of the ePDSCH is after the first starting point of the ePDCCH; and signaling, by the communications controller, to a user equipment (UE), the starting point and a number of the resource blocks allocated to the ePDSCH.