Patent ID: 9161347
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An integrated circuit comprising: circuitry, which, in operation: at least one input coupled to the circuitry, wherein the at least one input, in operation, inputs data; and at least one output coupled to the circuitry, wherein the at least one output, in operation, outputs data, wherein the search space is comprised of specific ones of the CCEs, at least a portion of the search space being comprised of CCEs with consecutive CCE numbers, and the specific ones of the CCEs start on a specific CCE number in ascending order according to the number of the CCE(s), to which the control channel is allocated, and wherein an uplink resource used for transmission of a response signal from the mobile station is associated with a CCE number of the CCE(s), to which the control channel is allocated.