Patent ID: 8811326
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for receiving a control channel by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting multiple carriers, the method comprising: receiving control information through a subframe, wherein the control information is present in one of a plurality of search spaces and each of the plurality of search spaces corresponds to each of the multiple carriers; and monitoring control channel candidates for the control information in the plurality of search spaces, wherein the plurality of search spaces is concatenated according to an allocation pattern, and the allocation pattern is changed with time, and wherein if a start resource of a search space for a primary component carrier (CC) is not identical to a start point of the plurality of search spaces, the plurality of search spaces is shifted in a manner that the start resource of the search space for the primary CC is identical to the start point.