Patent ID: 9154275
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An uplink cross-carrier scheduling method in a carrier aggregation system, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising: receiving uplink component carrier (UL CC) monitoring set information and downlink component carrier (DL CC) monitoring set information from a base station, wherein the UL CC monitoring set information is an indication of a first set of DL CCs on which the UE performs blind decoding to detect a first downlink control information (DCI) used for assigning physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resources and the DL CC monitoring set information is an indication of a second set of the DL CCs on which the UE performs blind decoding to detect a second DCI having a different format than the first DCI, used for assigning a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) resource; determining whether the first DCI includes a carrier indication field (CIF) indicating a cross-carrier scheduling, wherein a non-cross carrier scheduling configuration is implemented in the carrier aggregation system if it is determined that the first DCI includes the CIF, and a cross carrier scheduling configuration is implemented in the carrier aggregation system if it is determined that the first DCI does not include the CIF; and determining whether a DL CC in the first set of DL CCs is not identical to at least one DL CC in the second set of DL CCs, wherein if it is determined that the first set of DL CCs is not larger than the second set of DL CCs, the UL CC monitoring set information indicates the DL CC in the first set of DL CCs in a bitmap format by setting the bits corresponding to the DL CCs in the first set of DL CCs among a plurality of DL CCs assigned to the UE, or as an index number of the indicated DL CCs with respect to a lowest CC index or a highest CC index of the plurality of DL CCs assigned to the UE, wherein if it is determined that the first set of DL CCs is larger than the second set of DL CCs, the UL monitoring set information indicates the DL CCs included in the first set of DL CCs by either using a bitmap format indicating the DL CCs not included in the second set of DL CCs among the plurality of DL CCs assigned to the UE, or as an index number of the DL CCs not included in the second set of DL CCs among the plurality of DL CCs assigned to the UE with respect to the lower or a higher index of the plurality of DL CCs assigned to the UE, and wherein if it is determined that the first set of DL CCs and the second set of DL CCs are identical, an indicator is received from the base station, wherein the indicator indicates that the first set of DL CCs and the second set of DL CCs are identical.