Patent ID: 8767610
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting a relay physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) to a relay node at a base station in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wireless communication system, the method comprising: configuring at least one resource element group (REG) for a plurality of R-PDCCHs, the at least one REG for the plurality of R-PDCCHs comprising four consecutively available resource elements (REs) in each of a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols included in a subframe, wherein the four consecutively available REs are counted in an ascending order of subcarrier indexes; interleaving the plurality of R-PDCCHs; mapping the interleaved plurality of R-PDCCHs to transmission resources in a unit of the at least one REG for the plurality of R-PDCCHs; and transmitting one of the plurality of the R-PDCCHs to the relay node by using the transmission resources, wherein: a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) is transmitted through up to eight antenna ports; all REs corresponding to the up to eight antenna ports are unavailable for configuring the at least one REG for the plurality of R-PDCCHs if zero power CSI-RS or non-zero power CSI-RS occurs in any RE of the all REs corresponding to the up to eight antenna ports; all REs included in at least one OFDM symbol for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) are unavailable for configuring the at least one REG for the plurality of R-PDCCHs; the zero power CSI-RS is defined as a resource element pattern with zero transmission power; the non-zero power CSI-RS is defined as a resource element pattern with non-zero transmission power; and the method further comprises: