An enhanced physical downlink control channel E-PDCCH reception method, comprising: determining, by a user equipment, numbers of second resource groups for an enhanced physical downlink control channel, EPDCCH, wherein the second resource groups are control channel elements, eCCE or CCE; determine, by the user equipment according to the numbers of second resource groups, first resource groups on which the enhanced physical downlink control channel is mapped, wherein the first resource groups are resource element groups, eREGs or REGs, in a physical resource block set, and the first resource groups are located in a physical resource block set comprising at least two physical resource block pairs; receiving, by the use equipment, the EPDCCH on the first resource groups; characterized in that: each of the physical resource block pairs comprises N third resource groups, wherein N is a positive integer, and each of the third resource groups comprises M first resource groups, M is an integer greater or equal to 2, and in the physical resource block set, a numbering set of first resource groups comprised in each third resource group in a physical resource block pair is the same as a numbering set of first resource groups comprised in a third resource group in each of other physical resource block pairs; and each of the third resource groups corresponds to one of second resource groups of a first type, wherein each of the second resource groups of the first type is a second resource group for transmitting the E-PDCCH in localized mode, and the second resource groups of the first type in each physical resource block pair are numbered sequentially in ascending or descending order of numbers of the physical resource block pairs, wherein a correspondence between numbers of the second resource groups of the first type and numbers of first resource groups corresponding to the second resource groups of the first type exists in each physical resource block pair. determining, by a user equipment, numbers of second resource groups for an enhanced physical downlink control channel, EPDCCH, wherein the second resource groups are control channel elements, eCCE or CCE; determine, by the user equipment according to the numbers of second resource groups, first resource groups on which the enhanced physical downlink control channel is mapped, wherein the first resource groups are resource element groups, eREGs or REGs, in a physical resource block set, and the first resource groups are located in a physical resource block set comprising at least two physical resource block pairs; receiving, by the use equipment, the EPDCCH on the first resource groups; characterized in that: each of the physical resource block pairs comprises N third resource groups, wherein N is a positive integer, and each of the third resource groups comprises M first resource groups, M is an integer greater or equal to 2, and in the physical resource block set, a numbering set of first resource groups comprised in each third resource group in a physical resource block pair is the same as a numbering set of first resource groups comprised in a third resource group in each of other physical resource block pairs; and each of the third resource groups corresponds to one of second resource groups of a first type, wherein each of the second resource groups of the first type is a second resource group for transmitting the E-PDCCH in localized mode, and the second resource groups of the first type in each physical resource block pair are numbered sequentially in ascending or descending order of numbers of the physical resource block pairs, wherein a correspondence between numbers of the second resource groups of the first type and numbers of first resource groups corresponding to the second resource groups of the first type exists in each physical resource block pair. each of the physical resource block pairs comprises N third resource groups, wherein N is a positive integer, and each of the third resource groups comprises M first resource groups, M is an integer greater or equal to 2, and in the physical resource block set, a numbering set of first resource groups comprised in each third resource group in a physical resource block pair is the same as a numbering set of first resource groups comprised in a third resource group in each of other physical resource block pairs; and each of the third resource groups corresponds to one of second resource groups of a first type, wherein each of the second resource groups of the first type is a second resource group for transmitting the E-PDCCH in localized mode, and the second resource groups of the first type in each physical resource block pair are numbered sequentially in ascending or descending order of numbers of the physical resource block pairs, wherein a correspondence between numbers of the second resource groups of the first type and numbers of first resource groups corresponding to the second resource groups of the first type exists in each physical resource block pair.