Patent ID: 8761075

Claim:
A method for receiving a relay physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) from a base station at a relay node in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wireless communication system, the method comprising: configuring a plurality of resource element groups (REGs) for the R-PDCCH, each of the plurality of REGs comprising four consecutively available resource elements (REs) in each orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol included in a subframe, wherein the four consecutively available REs are counted in an ascending order of subcarrier indexes; and receiving, from the base station, at least a downlink assignment included in the R-PDCCH at a first slot in the subframe or an uplink grant included in the R-PDCCH at a second slot in the subframe by monitoring each of the first slot and the second slot in a unit of CCE (Control Channel Element), wherein: the CCE comprises at least one REG for the R-PDCCH; a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) is received through up to eight antenna ports; all REs corresponding to the up to eight antenna ports are unavailable for configuring the plurality of REGs for the R-PDCCH if zero power CSI-RS or non-zero power CSI-RS occurs in any RE of the all REs corresponding to the up to eight antenna ports; all REs included in at least one OFDM symbol for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) are unavailable for configuring the plurality of REGs for the R-PDCCH; the zero power CSI-RS is defined as a resource element pattern with zero transmission power; the non-zero power CSI-RS is defined as a resource element pattern with non-zero transmission power; and the method further comprises: receiving information on a resource element pattern for the zero power CSI-RS or non-zero power CSI-RS from the base station; and receiving the non-zero power CSI-RS in the REs indicated by the resource element pattern for the non-zero power CSI-RS if non-zero power CSI-RS occurs, wherein neither the CSI-RS nor the R-PDCCH is received in the REs indicated by the resource element pattern for the zero power CSI-RS if zero power CSI-RS occurs.