Relay station in radio communication system and operating method for the relay station

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9048924-B2
Application number	US-200913056129-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 30, 2009
Priority date	Jul 30, 2008
Publication date	Jun 2, 2015
Grant date	Jun 2, 2015

Abstract

A method for operating a relay station in a wireless communication system includes: obtaining information regarding assigned subframes among a plurality of subframes; monitoring a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) carrying information regarding a radio resource allocation within the assigned subframes; and receiving data from a base station on the basis of the radio resource allocation of the monitored PDCCH. The relay station may operate to guarantee compatibility with an existing terminal in a wireless communication system. Also, a method for assigning radio resources between a base station and the relay station is defined.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for operating a relay station (RS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
obtaining subframe information and control channel element (CCE) information from a base station (BS),
wherein the subframe information indicates assigned subframes which are located at fixed positions within a certain number of contiguous radio frames, and the CCE information indicates a number, N, corresponding to a number of CCEs, to be monitored in the assigned subframes for a relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH), and
wherein the R-PDCCH carries radio resource allocation information regarding a radio resource allocation within the assigned subframes;
monitoring the N CCEs in each of the assigned subframes for the R-PDCCH, the N CCEs being a monitoring unit of the R-PDCCH; and
receiving data from the base station on the basis of the radio resource allocation information of the R-PDCCH,
wherein when the number of CCEs to be monitored in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for a user equipment (UE) comprises 1, 2, 4 and 8 CCEs, the number, N, indicated by the CCE information is restricted to either 4 or 8,
wherein the radio resource allocation information is received through a RS downlink control information (DCI) format, and
wherein a number of bits of a field included in the RS DCI format is smaller than a number of bits of a corresponding field included in a UE DCI format which is used for radio resource allocation for the UE.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein when the data is received from the base station through a frequency band in the assigned subframes, the relay station does not transmit data to a user equipment (UE) through the frequency band in the assigned subframes.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the radio resource allocation information is information regarding a frequency band at a fixed position within the assigned subframes.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the radio resource allocation information is information regarding a frequency band determined for each of the assigned subframes.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subframe information and the CCE information is obtained through a portion of system information or an RRC (Radio Resource Control) message received from the base station.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) of the monitored R-PDCCH is masked by an unique identifier of the relay station.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in monitoring the R-PDCCH, the R-PDCCH is monitored from a fixed CCE.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the fixed CCE is defined on the basis of the unique identifier of the relay station.

9. A relay station (RS) comprising:
an RF unit configured to transmit and receive a radio signal; and
a processor connected to the RF unit, wherein the processor is configured to:
obtain subframe information and control channel element (CCE) information from a base station (BS), wherein the subframe information indicates assigned subframes which are located at fixed positions within a certain number of contiguous radio frames, and the CCE information indicates a number, N, corresponding to a number of CCEs, to be monitored in the assigned subframes for a relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH), wherein the R-PDCCH carries radio resource allocation information regarding a radio resource allocation within the assigned subframes,
monitor the N CCEs in each of the assigned subframes for the R-PDCCH, the N CCEs being a monitoring unit of the R-PDCCH; and
receive data from the base station on the basis of the radio resource allocation information of the R-PDCCH,
wherein when the number of CCEs to be monitored in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for a user equipment (UE) comprises 1, 2, 4 and 8 CCEs, the number, N, indicated by the CCE information is restricted to either 4 or 8,
wherein the radio resource allocation information is received through a RS downlink control information (DCI) format, and
wherein a number of bits of a field included in the RS DCI format is smaller than a number of bits of a corresponding field included in a UE DCI format which is used for radio resource allocation for the UE.

Assignees

• Chung Jae Hoon
• Park Kyu Jin
• Han Seung Hee
• Lee Moon Il
• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Chung Jae Hoon
• Park Kyu Jin
• Han Seung Hee
• Lee Moon Il

Classifications

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04B7/155

  Ground-based stations (H04B7/204 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04W84/047

  using dedicated repeater stations · CPC title

• H04W72/042

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B7/2606 Primary

  Arrangements for base station coverage control, e.g. by using relays in tunnels · CPC title