Patent ID: 9615363
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for a relay to receive downlink control information from a base station through a Relay-Physical Downlink Control Channel (R-PDCCH), the method comprising: obtaining at least one candidate position for the R-PDCCH; monitoring, based on the at least one candidate position, a Virtual Resource Block (VRB) set for the R-PDCCH including downlink control information; and receiving the downlink control information included in the R-PDCCH, wherein the at least one candidate position is within the VRB set including one or more VRBs, and one candidate position for the R-PDCCH of a higher aggregation level includes a combination of 2 adjacent candidate positions among candidate positions for the R-PDCCH of a lower aggregation level.