Patent ID: 9730203
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method for assigning the number of control channel candidates, the method comprising: assigning, by a base station, M enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) candidates based on a total number of candidates of different aggregation levels supported by a maximum number of physical resource block pairs; determining, by the base station, a first aggregation level set {L reassigning, by the base station, the M EPDCCH candidates from the maximum number of physical resource block pairs to an another number of physical resource block pairs, based on a total number of candidates of the different aggregation levels supported by the another number of physical resource block pairs and the determined number of EPDCCH candidates corresponding to each aggregation level in the {L determining, by the base station, a second aggregation level set {L a number of EPDCCH candidates corresponding to each aggregation level in the set {L