UTILIZATION OF USER EQUIPMENT IDENTIFICATION TO ADD SIGNALING INFORMATION ON A SHARED CONTROL CHANNEL

摘要

An apparatus, method, and software product are for masking a subframe of a shared control channel. A first part of the subframe is masked in a way specific to a user equipment, while using an identification of the user equipment. A remaining part of the subframe is masked using a second level masking operation, or at least using one other identification of the user equipment. This allows addition of more signaling information on an existing shared control channel, for example in the context of high speed downlink packet access.