Patent ID: 8619719

Claim:
A method for transmitting control information of multiple control information formats on control channels in a mobile communication system, the method comprising the following steps of: coding the control information of the control channels to generate coded control information bits, modulating the coded control information bits of the control channels, using a given modulation scheme for a control information format, to generate modulated control information, and transmitting the modulated control information of the control channels on physical resource elements, wherein, the coding step is generating, for each control information format, a number of coded control information bits that is a defined integer multiple of a smallest number of coded control information bits for said multiple control information formats that differ in their number of information bits, wherein the defined integer multiple of the smallest number of coded control information bits corresponds to an aggregation of multiple modulation symbols or resource elements, and the method further comprises the step of configuring one or more receiving entities to perform a blind detection on only a subset of the physical resource elements on which the control information can be mapped and/or on only a subset of the multiple control information formats.