CPC H04B 7/0456 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0639 (2013.01); H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04L 1/0038 (2013.01); H04B 7/0626 (2013.01)] | 28 Claims |
1. A method performed by a wireless device for decoding a transmission, the method comprising:
determining a plurality of Machine-Type Communications, MTC, Physical Downlink Control Channel, MPDCCH, transmission candidates to monitor;
for at least one candidate of the plurality of MPDCCH transmission candidates, determining whether the candidate belongs to a first group of candidates or a second group of candidates where the first group of candidates comprises a first subset of a first search space and the second group of candidates comprises the combination of a second search space and a second subset of the first search space, where the second subset is a complement of the first subset and the first search space comprises a User Equipment, UE,-specific search space and the second search space comprises a Type 0-MPDCCH common search space;
if the candidate belongs to the first group of candidates, attempting to decode the MPDCCH transmission using a Channel State Information, CSI,-based precoding scheme; and
if the candidate belongs to the second group of candidates, attempting to decode the MPDCCH transmission using a predetermined precoding scheme.
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