Patent ID: 9614643
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for receiving acknowledgement/negative-ACK (ACK/NACK) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: configuring a first search space for the UE; receiving an uplink grant from a first base station (BS) by monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) carrying the uplink grant in the first search space for the UE; transmitting an uplink data signal to a second BS using the uplink grant; configuring a second search space for a UE group, wherein the UE group comprises a plurality of UEs including the UE; and receiving, from the first BS, downlink control information (DCI) by monitoring a DCI based physical HARQ (Hybrid—Automatic Repeat and request) indicator channel (PHICH) in the second search space for the UE group, wherein the DCI is generated by concatenating ACK/NACK responses corresponding to the plurality of UEs; and obtaining an ACK/NACK response of the uplink data signal corresponding to the UE from the ACK/NACK responses corresponding to the plurality of UEs, wherein a position of the ACK/NACK response corresponding to the UE in the ACK/NACK responses corresponding to the plurality of UEs is determined using an order of the UE in the UE group, wherein information on the order of the UE in the UE group is included in the uplink grant, and wherein, when the first search space is configured in a second slot, the second search space for the UE group is configured in the second slot.