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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2017
Mediatek Inc., Hsinchu, TW;
Pei-Kai Liao, Hsinchu, TW;
Yi-Ju Liao, Hsinchu, TW;
MEDIATEK INC., Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
A method of downlink control information (DCI) transmission is proposed to enhance DCI transmission efficiency over physical layer signaling in cellular mobile communication networks. A serving base station uses a higher layer signaling, e.g., radio resource control (RRC) signaling message to configure a plurality of user equipments (UEs) to monitor UE-group DCI. When the UE is configured to monitor UE-group DCI, the UE monitors both unicast DCI and UE-group DCI in each corresponding scheduling time unit, e.g., a subframe in LTE. The candidate positions of the unicast DCI and the UE-group DCI can be orthogonal, partially overlapping, or fully overlapping with each other.