Method and apparatus for the detection of common control channel in an OFDMA cellular communication system

摘要

Improvement of reception downlink common control channels in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based cellular wireless communication system is provided by User Equipment (UE) using a downlink synchronization channel transmitted in an adjacent OFDM symbol as a pilot channel for channel estimation upon common control channel demodulation. When providing both unicast and multicast data services, OFDM symbol transmitting multicast data generally has a longer Cyclic Prefix (CP) than an OFDM symbol for unicast data than a signal frequency network. Therefore, length of CPs of OFDM symbols belonging to each subframe may change depending on whether multimedia data is transmitted. Although a UE does not recognize the length of a CP applied to a subframe in which a common control and a synchronization channel are transmitted, the UE can use a downlink synchronization channel as a channel estimation pilot to demodulate the common control channel.