System and method for sharing a control channel for carrier aggregation
US10027460B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 15, 2010 |
| Grant date | Jul 17, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 13, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L5/0007
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates, the method comprising the steps of identifying the number of configured carriers used to communicate with the access device, based on the number of configured carriers used to communicate with the access device, identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant.
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