QUALCOMM Incorporated
Techniques for downlink control channel location indication in wireless communications

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for a location indicator transmission that may indicate a location of control channel resources that are to be monitored by a user equipment (UE) for control channel transmissions. A UE may receive the location indicator, and monitor the indicated control channel resources to receive downlink control information with an allocation of shared channel resources for the UE. The location indicator may include one or more parameters that allow a UE to receive the control channel transmissions according to a single decoding hypothesis. The location indicator may include one or more of a valid period of the location of the control channel transmissions, an interval at which control channel transmissions may be transmitted, an aggregation level used for the control channel transmissions, an index that identifies a first control channel element of the control channel transmissions, or combinations thereof.