Patent ID: 8837625

Claim:
A method of receiving control information in a wireless communication system, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising: receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and obtaining a downlink control information (DCI) format from the PDCCH, the DCI format comprising a plurality of information fields, wherein the DCI format is used for scheduling a single codeword in a multi user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) scheme, wherein the plurality of information fields comprise a transmitted precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) information field indicating a codebook index, a downlink power offset for downlink data transmission, and a virtual resource block (VRB) assignment flag field identifying whether a resource block is assigned in a consecutive manner or a distributed manner, wherein the downlink power offset is a single information bit that is set to a first offset value indicating ‘0 (dB)’ or a second offset value indicating ‘−10 log 10 2 (dB)’, and wherein the downlink power offset replaces a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) confirmation field indicating whether precoding is performed on downlink data by using a PMI reported by the UE.