US 12,082,206 B2
Communications system and associated devices for performing communication using control channels of different repetition rates
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB); Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke (GB); Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Basingstoke (GB); and Yassin Aden Awad, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/260,551
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 19, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/069530
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/020780, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18185543 (EP), filed on Jul. 25, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0282123 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 1/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04L 1/08 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base station for a mobile telecommunications system comprising circuitry configured to:
communicate with at least one user equipment;
provide, to the at least one user equipment, control channel candidates at different repetition levels; and
provide an indication of a repetition level for at least a first control channel candidate to the at least one user equipment via downlink control information (DCI),
wherein at least the first control channel candidate of the repetition level overlaps in time with at least a second control channel candidate of the same repetition level,
wherein time overlapping control channel candidates having the same repetition level are associated with different control channel search spaces.