Method and device for transmitting a terminal-specific reference signal for a control channel by a base station in a wireless communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9979524-B2
Application number	US-201214353724-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 15, 2012
Priority date	Oct 27, 2011
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a terminal-specific reference signal for a control signal by a base station in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method is characterized in that it comprises: transmitting a plurality of control channels and a first terminal-specific reference signal for the plurality of control channels to a first resource region; and transmitting one control channel and a second terminal-specific reference signal for the control channel to a second resource region, wherein the different descrambling identifiers are applied to the first and second terminal-specific reference signals.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for transmitting a user equipment (UE)-specific reference signal for a control channel by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
transmitting a first control channel and a first UE-specific reference signal for the first control channel to a first resource region included in an enhanced-physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) resource region; and
transmitting a second control channel and a second UE-specific reference signal for the second control channel to a second resource region included in the E-PDCCH resource region,
wherein the E-PDCCH resource region is divided into the first resource region and the second resource region on a frequency axis based on whether interleaving is applied to the first control channel included in the first resource region and the second control channel included in the second resource region, and
wherein different scrambling identifiers are applied, by the same BS, to generate a sequence for the first UE-specific reference signal and a sequence for the second UE-specific reference signal for the first resource region and the second resource region.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
interleaving the first control channel; and
mapping the interleaved control channel to the first resource region.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a scrambling identifier applied to the first UE-specific reference signal is defined as a cell-specific parameter and a scrambling identifier applied to the second UE-specific reference signal is defined as a node-specific parameter or a UE-specific parameter.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a scrambling identifier applied to the second UE-specific reference signal is defined as an offset value of a scrambling identifier applied to the first UE-specific reference signal.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a scrambling identifier applied to the second UE-specific reference signal is configured through higher layer signaling separately from a scrambling identifier applied to the first UE-specific reference signal.

6. A base station in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:
a processor configured to:
generate a first control channel and a first user equipment (UE)-specific reference signal for the first control channel, and
generate a second control channel and a second UE-specific reference signal for the second control channel; and

a transmitter configured to:
transmit the first control channel and the first UE-specific reference signal to a first region included in an enhanced-physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) resource region, and
transmit the second control channel and the second UE-specific reference signal to a second region included in the E-PDCCH resource region,

wherein the E-PDCCH resource region is divided into the first resource region and the second resource region on a frequency axis based on whether interleaving is applied to the first control channel included in the first resource region and the second control channel included in the second resource region, and
wherein the processor applies different scrambling identifiers upon generating a sequence for the first UE-specific reference signal and a sequence for the second UE-specific reference signal for the first resource region and the second resource region.

7. The base station according to claim 6 , wherein the processor interleaves the first control channel and maps the interleaved control channel to the first resource region.

8. The base station according to claim 6 , wherein a scrambling identifier applied to the first UE-specific reference signal is defined as a cell-specific parameter and a scrambling identifier applied to the second UE-specific reference signal is defined as a node-specific parameter or a UE-specific parameter.

9. The base station according to claim 6 , wherein a scrambling identifier applied to the second UE-specific reference signal is defined as an offset value of a scrambling identifier applied to the first UE-specific reference signal.

10. The base station according to claim 6 , wherein a scrambling identifier applied to the second UE-specific reference signal is configured through higher layer signaling separately from a scrambling identifier applied to the first UE-specific reference signal.

Assignees

• Kim Kitae
• Chun Jinyoung
• Kim Sunam
• Kang Jiwon
• Ihm Binchul
• Park Sungho
• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Kitae
• Chun Jinyoung
• Kim Sunam
• Kang Jiwon
• Ihm Binchul
• Park Sungho

Classifications

• H04L5/0053

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

• H04W72/23

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

• H04L5/0051 Primary

  of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal · CPC title

• H04L5/0023

  Time-frequency-space · CPC title

• H04W72/042

  Electricity · mapped topic