System and method for resource block-specific control signaling

摘要

A system and method is disclosed for resource block-specific control signaling in a communication system. Communication data is transmitted using a transmission channel comprising a plurality of resource blocks defined by allocating time-frequency slots in a transmission resource. Resource block control information is transmitted in a “feed-forward” manner to a user end (UE) or group of UEs using channels physically mapped into scheduled resource blocks (RBs) for that user or group of users. Embodiments of the invention provide an RB-specific control channel that comprises RB control elements that are embedded within scheduled resource blocks. The invention, therefore, reduces the amount of control information that must be transmitted by common or shared control channels.

主权项

1. A method for processing signals in a communication apparatus in a communication system, the method comprising:
receiving data that has been transmitted using a plurality of resource blocks within a predetermined frequency band, each of the plurality of resource blocks being allocated to the communication apparatus, the plurality of resource blocks having a corresponding plurality of resource block control elements embedded therein, each embedded resource block control element comprising control information for the resource block in which the resource block control element is embedded; and receiving a plurality of transmitted common control elements, wherein at least one of said plurality of transmitted common control elements comprises one or more user identifiers and one or more associated resource block allocation identifiers.