Patent ID: 8879498
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An integrated circuit for controlling a process comprising: receiving a control channel, which is transmitted on one or a plurality of control channel elements (CCE(s)) with consecutive CCE number(s) from a base station apparatus; and decoding the received control channel in a search space, which is defined by control channel candidates to be decoded; 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 starting on a specific CCE number in ascending order according to the number of the CCE(s), on which the control channel is transmitted, and wherein an uplink resource used for transmission of a response signal is associated with a CCE number of the CCE(s), on which the control channel is transmitted.