Abstract: A method for wireless backhaul communication between a base station and a relay is disclosed. The base station enables a physical control channel to be set up, separately from the terminal that is used to transmit control information to each relay and the physical downlink control channel that has been set up. The base station can transmit data to the relay based on this control information. In a special embodiment, physical downlink control channel transmissions can be minimized by prescribing in advance the transmission of control information between the base station and the relay.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for setting a carrier indication field indicating an element carrier in a multi-carrier system using a plurality of element carriers. The method includes: transmitting a value of a carrier indication field (CIF) and first CIF setting information that indicates a first mapping relationship between element carriers; transmitting downlink control information (DCI) including a carrier indication field; and transmitting a value of a CIF and second CIF setting information that indicates a second mapping relationship between element carriers, wherein the carrier indication field is a field indicating any one of the plurality of element carriers, and at least one element carrier is mapped with the same carrier indication field value in the first and second mapping relationships.

Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal via physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for performing the method are provided. Control information bits are modulated to generate N1 modulation symbols, wherein N1 is twice a number of subcarriers in one resource block (RB). The modulation symbols are spread by using various orthogonal codes to generate a plurality of sequences and the generated plurality of sequences are transmitted using different slots of a subframe through different antenna ports, each sequence of the plurality of sequences being mapped on a corresponding single carrier frequency division multiple access symbol in a corresponding slot.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus of transmitting information in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting information based on a first resource index through a first antennae and transmitting the information based on a second resource index through a second antennae.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for a base station to transmit a downlink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: allocating a resource to a downlink signal; and transmitting the downlink signal using the allocated resource. In the downlink signal transmission method and apparatus thereof, a resource for transmitting a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) among the downlink signals is allocated from a specific OFDM symbol that is fixed within a subframe.

Abstract: A method for receiving an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) from a user equipment (UE) at a base station in a time division duplex (TDD) communication system. The method according to one embodiment includes transmitting downlink control information (DCI) including a request of the aperiodic SRS to the UE. The downlink control information includes information for receiving downlink data using multiple antennas from the base station by the user equipment. The method according to the embodiment further includes receiving the aperiodic SRS from the UE in response to the request.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting control information through a PUCCH in a wireless communication system and an apparatus thereof, comprising the steps of: spreading modulation symbol sets to first slot, by using a first code; spreading modulation symbol sets to second slot, by using a second code, wherein the length of the second code is varied according to the number of SC-FDMA symbols for PUCCH transmission.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for transmitting/receiving control information in a wireless communication system. In a repeater according to the present invention, a receiving antenna can receive control information for a hybrid automatic repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ ACK) feedback on the data transmission of a base station from the base station through higher layer signaling. On the basis of the control information, a processor can determine a resource in an upper link control channel to be used for the transmission of the HARQ feedback. A transmitting antenna can transmit the HARQ feedback to the base station through the resource that has been determined.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting control signal via a PUCCH in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus for the method, wherein the method comprises the following steps: joint-coding a plurality of pieces of control information to obtain a single codeword; obtaining a first modulation symbol sequence from the single codeword; obtaining, from the first modulation symbol sequence, a plurality of second modulation symbol sequences corresponding to each slot in the PUCCH; cyclically shifting the plurality of second modulation symbol sequences in a time domain to obtain a plurality of third modulation symbol sequences; performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoding process on the plurality of third modulation symbol sequences to obtain a plurality of complex symbol sequences in a frequency domain; and transmitting the plurality of complex symbol sequences via the PUCCH.

Abstract: A repeater apparatus for detecting a downlink HARQ ACK/NACK feedback signal from a base station is provided. An RF (Radio Frequency) unit receives specific channel configuration information which includes offset information indicating the starting point of a specific channel to which said HARQ ACK/NACK feedback signal is transmitted from the base station and the position of the specific channel allocated for an exclusive use of the repeater apparatus within the specific channel from said start point, and receives the HARQ ACK/NACK feedback signal from the base station for an uplink transmission of the repeater. The processor detects the specific channel allocated for exclusive use of the repeater apparatus based on the received specific channel configuration information thereby decoding the received HARQ ACK/NACK feedback signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a relay node device for receiving control information from a base station and a method therefor. The relay node device according to the present invention comprises: a receiver, which receives information about an area where a relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH), the channel for transmitting control information for the relay node from a base station, is allocated; a processor, which searches for at least one R-PDCCH for the relay node based on the R-PDCCH allocation information received; and an R-PDCCH receiver, which receives the at least one R-PDCCH from the fourth symbol of the first slot in a downlink backhaul subframe of the area where the at least one R-PDCCH searched for by the processor has been allocated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method in which a receiver transmits control information in a wireless communication system. The method comprises a step of receiving a plurality of data units from a transmitter, a step of determining acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) states for each of the data units; and a step of transmitting, to the transmitter, the ACK/NACK states in multiple ACK/NACK states or in a single ACK/NACK state in accordance with a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A method of transmitting control information in a carrier aggregation system is provided. The method includes: transmitting bandwidth information of a component carrier; configuring downlink control information including an additional indication field and an information field; mapping the downlink control information in any one of containing units having a plurality of predetermined different bit sizes in accordance with the bandwidth information; and transmitting the downlink control information mapped to any one of the containing units, wherein the information field is any one of a plurality of control information formats applicable to the component carrier, and the additional indication field includes information indicating a specific control information format to which the information field corresponds among the plurality of control information formats. Accordingly, the number of blind decoding attempts of a user equipment can decrease in a carrier aggregation system.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus for transmitting and receiving an uplink backhaul signal in a wireless communication system and a method thereof. The method for receiving the uplink backhaul signal from a relay station in a base station, comprises the step of receiving a signal transmitted through an uplink backhaul sub-frame of an index N in the relay station using an uplink sub-frame of an index N or an index N+1 in the base station. The base station receives the signal transmitted from the relay station in the uplink sub-frame of the index N or the index N+1 of the base station at the delayed timing corresponding to a propagation delay value of the signal according to the distance between the relay station and the base station from a transmitting time point.

Abstract: A method of transmitting, by a transmitter, information in a wireless communication system, the method includes generating first and second symbols; generating first and second transmit vectors on the basis of an Alamouti code from the first and second symbols; and transmitting the first transmit vector through a first antenna and transmitting the second transmit vector through a second antenna. The first transmit vector consists of a first transmit symbol and a second transmit symbol. The second transmit vector consists of a third transmit symbol and a fourth transmit symbol. The first, second, third, and fourth transmit symbols are transmitted based on first and second resource indexes. The first symbol is a first modulation symbol for first information, and the second symbol is a second modulation symbol for second information.

Abstract: A method is described for transmitting signals in a mobile communication system which splits an information block into a plurality of split-information blocks and performs a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process upon each of the split-information blocks. A method is also described for reducing control information overhead by transmitting control information only through one control channel when splitting an information block and transmitting split-information blocks through a plurality of subframes or a plurality of resource blocks. The segmentation of the information block is performed in a physical layer to reduce medium access control (MAC) overhead and to simplify implementation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal from a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving resource operation information, which includes resource allocation information for channel sounding, from a base station; and transmitting the sounding reference signal through the entire or part of a resource region that is allocated for transmission of a demodulation reference signal on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) according to the resource operation information.

Abstract: A method of allocating control information in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: allocating essential control information of a first system to a first sub-frame in a frame including a plurality of sub-frames each of which comprises a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; and allocating essential control information of a second system to an nth sub-frame in a fixed position from the first sub-frame (where n is an integer satisfying n>1). Accordingly, in a frame supporting heterogeneous systems, essential control information can be fixedly allocated to a specific position while maintaining the number of system switching points, at which switching occurs between the systems, to one even if a radio resource allocation amount changes between the systems, and thus the essential control information that must be received by all user equipments can be effectively provided without the increase of overhead.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving control information for group communications in a wireless communication system. According to one aspect of the present invention, a control information transmission method for group communication in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of, a base station: receiving a group communication request from one or more terminals; determining a plurality of terminals which will perform the group communication; allocating resources which are to be used for performing the group communication; and transmitting information on the plurality of terminals and resource allocation information on the resources which are to be used, to the one or more terminals among the plurality of terminals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting acknowledgement/negative ACK (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system which supports carrier aggregation, and to an apparatus for the method, wherein the method comprises the following steps: detecting one or more control channels from a plurality of component carrier; receiving one or more data indicated by the downlink control information loaded onto said one or more control channels; and transmitting ACK/NACK information relating to said one or more data via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein each of the pieces of downlink control information includes count information which is set in connection with the entire control channel actually allocated to a terminal.