APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING CONTROL CHANNEL BLOCKING Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC H04W48/12 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: invention discloses a method of processing a control channel at user equipment in a wireless communication system using multiple carriers, the method comprising steps of: receiving a plurality of search spaces, wherein each search space comprises a plurality of control channel candidates and each search space is corresponding to respective carrier; and monitoring the control channel candidates for the control channel, wherein if the control channel candidates have a common information size over two or more search spaces, the control channel can be received via any one of the two or more the search spaces, and an apparatus carrying out said method.

EFFECT: preventing control channel blocking in a radio communication system which supports carrier aggregation.

27 cl, 24 dwg