System and method for efficient station identification

摘要

A base station is provided. The base station includes a transmit path circuitry that generates a masking sequence to mask a cyclic redundancy check of a control channel information element. The masking sequence includes a 4-bit prefix. The three least significant bits of the 4-bit prefix indicate a message type of the control channel information element. A subscriber station is also provided. The subscriber station includes a receive path circuitry that determines a message type of a control channel information element using a three least significant bits of a 4-bit prefix of a masking sequence used to mask a cyclic redundancy check of the control channel information element.

主权项

1. A base station comprising:
a transmit path circuitry configured to generate a masking sequence to mask a cyclic redundancy check of a control channel information element, the mask sequence comprising a 4-bit prefix, wherein the three least significant bits of the 4-bit prefix indicate a transmission type of the control channel information element and the masking sequence further comprises an identifier associated with the transmission type, wherein when the identifier is a unicast StationID, then the three least significant bits have a first value, wherein when the identifier is a group-ID of a group resource allocation, then the three least significant bits have a second value different from the first value, and wherein when the identifier is a group-ID of an enhanced multicast broadcast services station ID (E-MBS STID), then the three least significant bits have a third value different from the first value and the second value.