Patent ID: 8195186
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, performed by a base station, of communicating communications control information with a user device in an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) mobile telecommunications system in which plural user devices are each allocated plural orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) resource allocations including at least one resource allocation within which a data channel is to be located, the method comprising: communicating, at a time for which said user device has not received the at least one resource allocation, at least a part of respective control information for said user device over an E-UTRA air interface using a control channel; and communicating, at a time for which said user device has received the at least one resource allocation, at least a further part of the control information for said user device using the data channel in the at least one of the resource allocations for said user device, wherein said at least part of the respective control information communicated using the control channel is a same type as said at least a further part of the respective control information communicated using the data channel.