Control channel transmission method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9674827-B2
Application number	US-201514610879-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2015
Priority date	Aug 1, 2012
Publication date	Jun 6, 2017
Grant date	Jun 6, 2017

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field and provide a control channel transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: grouping REs except a DMRS in each physical resource block pair of L determined physical resource block pairs used to transmit a control channel into N eREGs, and calculating the number of valid REs except other overheads in each eREG of the N eREGs; and then mapping each of the eCCEs onto M eREGs according to the number of valid REs included in each eREG of the N eREGs of each physical resource block pair, and sending the eCCE by using the resource elements included in the eREG.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control channel transmission method, comprising:
determining L physical resource block pairs that are used to transmit a control channel, wherein L is an integer greater than 0 and the control channel is formed by at least one enhanced Control Channel Element (eCCE);
grouping resource elements except a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in each physical resource block pair of the L physical resource block pairs into N enhanced Resource Element Group (eREGs);
calculating a number of valid resource elements except other overheads in each eREG of the N eREGs in each of the physical resource block pairs, wherein N is an integer greater than 0, and the other overheads comprise at least one of the following: a common reference signal (CRS), a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), a positioning reference signal (PRS), a primary synchronization signal (PSS), and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS);
mapping each eCCE of the at least one eCCE onto M eREGs according to the number of valid resource elements comprised in each eREG of the N eREGs, wherein M is an integer greater than 0; and
sending the at least one eCCE by using the resource elements comprised in the eREG.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein mapping from each of the eCCEs to the M eREGs makes a difference not greater than 5, wherein the difference is a difference between the numbers of valid resource elements occupied by two of the eCCEs.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein mapping each eCCE of the at least one eCCE onto M eREGs according to the number of valid resource elements comprised in each eREG of the N eREGs comprises:
grouping N eREGs in each of the physical resource block pairs into a first eREG group and a second eREG group according to the number of valid resource elements comprised in the eREG, and mapping each eCCE of the at least one eCCE onto M eREGs of the first eREG group and the second eREG group, wherein, in the M eREGs mapped from each eCCE, the first M/2 eREGs of the M eREGs are in the first eREG group, the number of valid resource elements comprised in each eREG of the first M/2 eREGs is a different value, the last M/2 eREGs of the M eREGs are in the second eREG group, and the number of valid resource elements comprised in each eREG of the last M/2 eREGs is a different value.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the mapping each eCCE of the at least one eCCE onto M eREGs according to the number of valid resource elements comprised in each eREG of the N eREGs comprises:
numbering the N eREGs in each of the physical resource block pairs as 0, 1, 2, . . . , N−1, and using S i to denote a set of eREGs in the N eREGs, wherein the number of valid resource elements comprised in each eREG in the set is D i (i=1, 2, . . . , t), D 1 <D 2 < . . . <D t , and t is an integer greater than 0;
selecting one eREG respectively from each of the sets S 1 , S t , S 2 , S t-1 . . . sequentially until M eREGs are selected in total, and mapping one eCCE in the at least one eCCE onto M eREGs;
removing the selected eREGs from corresponding sets, reselecting M eREGs; and
mapping another eCCE in the at least one eCCE onto the reselected M eREGs until all the N eREGs of the physical resource block pair are mapped onto.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the eREGs corresponding to the resource elements of the physical resource block pairs have sequence numbers; and
wherein mapping each eCCE of the at least one eCCE onto M eREGs comprises calculating the sequence numbers, in the corresponding physical resource block pairs, of the M eREGs mapped from each eCCE; and mapping each eCCE of the at least one eCCE onto M eREGs corresponding to M eREG sequence numbers corresponding to the sequence numbers according to the sequence numbers.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein L=1, and the method further comprises calculating the sequence numbers of the at least one eCCE corresponding to the eREGs in each physical resource block pair according to the following formula: the sequence number of the eCCE corresponding to the j th eREG of each physical resource block pair is Loc_eCCE_i=j mod K, wherein K is the number of eCCEs borne in each physical resource block pair, and j=0, 1, . . . , or K−1.

7. A control channel transmission method, comprising:
determining L physical resource block pairs that are used to transmit a control channel, wherein L is an integer greater than 0;
grouping resource elements except a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in each physical resource block pair of the L physical resource block pairs into at least one enhanced Resource Element Group (eREG);
obtaining, according to an aggregation level of the control channel, a number of enhanced Control Channel Element (eCCEs) that form the control channel and sequence numbers of eREGs mapped from each eCCE;
when L is greater than 1, numbering the eREGs differently in different physical resource block pairs of the L physical resource block pairs;
when L is equal to 1, numbering the eREGs of the physical resource block pair differently according to different transmitting time points of the control channel; and
sending the eCCEs by using the resource elements comprised in the eREGs corresponding to the sequence numbers of the eREGs mapped from the eCCEs.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the numbering the eREGs differently in different physical resource block pairs of the L physical resource block pairs comprises:
numbering the eREGs in a first physical resource block pair of the L physical resource block pairs; and
performing a cyclic shift for the sequence numbers of the eREGs in the first physical resource block pair to obtain sequence numbers of the eREGs in a second physical resource block pair of the L physical resource block pairs.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the numbering the eREGs differently in different physical resource block pairs of the L physical resource block pairs comprises:
numbering the eREGs in a first physical resource block pair of the L physical resource block pairs; and
performing L−1 cyclic shifts for the sequence numbers of the eREGs in the first physical resource block pair to obtain sequence numbers of the eREGs in other L−1 physical resource block pairs except the first physical resource block pair of the L physical resource block pairs respectively.

10. A control channel transmission apparatus, comprising:
a processor; and
a computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions for:
determining L physical resource block pairs that are used to transmit a control channel, wherein L is an integer greater than 0, and the control channel is formed by at least one enhanced Control Channel Element (eCCE);
grouping resource elements except a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in each physical resource block pair of the L physical resource block pairs determined by the processor into N enhanced Resource Element Group (eREGs);
calculating a number of valid resource elements except other overheads in each eREG of the N eREGs in each of the physical resource block pairs, wherein N is an integer greater than 0, and the other overheads comprise at least one of the following: a common reference signal (CRS), a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), a positioning reference signal (PRS), a primary synchronization signal (PSS), and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS);
mapping each eCCE of the at least one eCCE onto M eREGs according to the number of valid resource elements comprised in each eREG of the N eREGs of each phy

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Jianqin
• Liu Kunpeng
• Wu Qiang
• Liu Jianghua

Classifications

• H04W72/23 Primary

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

• H04W72/20

  Control channels or signalling for resource management · CPC title

• H04L5/003 Primary

  Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path · CPC title

• H04L5/0064

  Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority · CPC title

• H04L5/0053 Primary

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title