Method for transmitting physical downlink control channel in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor

Abstract

A method for transmitting a physical downlink channel in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are provided.SOLUTION: A method of receiving a PhysicalDownlinkControlChannel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) comprising receiving configuration information on a first controlresourceset (CORESET) from a BS; receiving configuration information on a second CORESET from the BS; receiving a first PDCCH transmitted on the first CORESET from the BS; and receiving a second PDCCH transmitted on the second CORESET from the BS.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 45

Description

[Technical Field]

[0001] The present specification relates to a wireless communication system, and to a method and apparatus for transmitting a physical downlink control channel. [Background technology]

[0002] After the commercialization of the fourth-generation (4G) communication system, efforts are underway to develop a new fifth-generation (5G) communication system to meet the increasing demand for wireless data traffic. 5G communication systems are also called post-4G network communication systems, post-LTE systems, or new radio (NR) systems. To achieve high data rates, 5G communication systems include systems that operate using millimeter wave (mmWave) bands above 6 GHz, and also include communication systems that operate using frequency bands below 6 GHz to ensure coverage. As a result, implementation forms for base stations and terminals are under consideration.

[0003] This increases efficiency and allows communication providers to offer more data and voice services over a given bandwidth. Therefore, the 3GPP NR system is designed to meet the demand for high-speed data and media transmission in addition to supporting large amounts of voice. The advantages of the NR system are higher throughput and lower latency on the same platform, support for frequency division duplexing (FDD) and time division duplexing (TDD), and low operating costs with an enhanced end-user environment and simple architecture. For more efficient data processing, the dynamic TDD of the NR system may use a method to change the number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols that can be used in the uplink and downlink according to the data traffic direction of a cell user. For example, when the downlink traffic of a cell is larger than the uplink traffic, the base station may allocate more downlink OFDM symbols to a slot (or subframe). Information about the slot configuration should be transmitted to the terminal.

[0004] To mitigate path loss and increase the transmission distance of radio waves in the ultra-high frequency band, technologies being discussed for 5G communication systems include beamforming, massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO), full-dimension multiple-input multiple-output (FD-MIMO), array antenna, analog beamforming, hybrid beamforming that combines analog beamforming and digital beamforming, and large scale antenna technologies. Additionally, to improve the system network, technological developments are being conducted for 5G communication systems, including advanced small cells, cloud radio access networks (cloud RAN), ultra-dense networks, device to device communication (D2D), vehicle to everything communication (V2X), wireless backhaul, non-terrestrial network communication (NTN), moving networks, cooperative communication, coordinated multi-points (CoMP), and interference cancellation.Other advanced coding modulation (ACM) methods being developed for 5G systems include hybrid FSK and QAM modulation (FQAM) and sliding window superposition coding (SWSC), as well as advanced access technologies such as filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and sparse code multiple access (SCMA).

[0005] Meanwhile, in a human-centered connected network where humans generate and consume information, the Internet is evolving into the Internet of Things (IoT) network, which exchanges information among distributed components such as objects. Internet of Everything (IoE) technology is also emerging, combining IoT technology with big data processing technology through connections to cloud servers. Implementing IoT requires technological elements such as sensing technology, wired / wireless communication and network infrastructure, service interface technology, and security technology. As a result, in recent years, technologies such as sensor networks, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, and machine-type communication (MTC) have been considered for connecting objects. In an IoT environment, intelligent Internet technology (IT) services can be provided that collect and analyze data generated by connected objects to create new value in human life. Through the integration and blending of existing information technology (IT) with various industries, IoT can be applied in areas such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, smart grids, health management, smart home appliances, and advanced medical services.

[0006] Therefore, various attempts are being made to apply 5G communication systems to IoT networks. For example, technologies such as sensor networks, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, and machine-type communication (MTC) are implemented using techniques such as beamforming, MIMO, and array antennas. The application of Cloud RAN as a big data processing technology described above is an example of the fusion of 5G technology and IoT technology. Generally, mobile communication systems are being developed to provide voice services while guaranteeing user activity.

[0007] However, mobile communication systems have gradually expanded beyond voice services to include data services, and have now been developed to the extent that they provide high-speed data services. However, due to the resource shortage phenomenon in currently available mobile communication systems and users' demand for high-speed services, more advanced mobile communication systems are needed. Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0008] The present specification aims to provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a physical downlink channel in a wireless communication system. [Means for solving the problem]

[0009] The present specification provides a method for transmitting a physical downlink channel in a wireless communication system.

[0010] A method for receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system, the method being performed by a terminal, includes the steps of receiving configuration information regarding a first control resource set (CORESET) from a base station; receiving configuration information regarding a second CORESET from the base station; receiving a first PDCCH transmitted on the first CORESET from the base station; and receiving a second PDCCH transmitted on the second CORESET from the base station, wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are repeatedly transmitted from the base station, and the first downlink control information (DCI) included in the first PDCCH and the second DCI included in the second PDCCH are identical.

[0011] Also, in this specification, a method performed by a terminal further includes the steps of receiving configuration information regarding a first search space from the base station; and receiving configuration information regarding a second search space from the base station, wherein the first search space is associated with the first CORESET, the second search space is associated with the second CORESET, the first search space and the second search space are resources on different time domains, and the first PDCCH is received on the first search space and the second PDCCH is received on the second search space.

[0012] Also, in this specification, the method performed by the terminal further includes a step of transmitting HARQ-ACK information for one of the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH to the base station, wherein the HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information for a PDCCH transmitted on a search space with a lower index among an index of the first search space and an index of the second search space.

[0013] Also, in this specification, a method performed by a terminal further includes the steps of receiving a third PDCCH on a third search space from the base station; and transmitting HARQ_ACK information for one of the first PDCCH, the second PDCCH, and the third PDCCH to the base station, wherein the third PDCCH includes a third DCI different from the first DCI and the second DCI, and when the third search space overlaps with one of the first search space or the second search space, the HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information for a PDCCH transmitted on a search space with a lowest index among the indices of the overlapping search spaces.

[0014] Also in this specification, a terminal that receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver; and a processor that controls the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to receive configuration information regarding a first control resource set (CORESET) from a base station, receive configuration information regarding a second CORESET from the base station, receive a first PDCCH transmitted on the first CORESET from the base station, and receive a second PDCCH transmitted on the second CORESET from the base station, wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are repeatedly transmitted from the base station, and the first downlink control information (DCI) included in the first PDCCH and the second DCI included in the second PDCCH are identical.

[0015] Also in this specification, the processor is further configured to receive configuration information regarding a first search space from the base station and to receive configuration information regarding a second search space from the base station, wherein the first search space is associated with the first CORESET and the second search space is associated with the second CORESET, the first search space and the second search space are resources on different time domains, and the first PDCCH is received on the first search space and the second PDCCH is received on the second search space.

[0016] Also, in this specification, the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are set to the same aggregation level (AL).

[0017] In this specification, the first CORESET and the second CORESET are resources in different time-frequency domains.

[0018] In this specification, the first CORESET and the second CORESET are resources in the same time-frequency domain.

[0019] Also, in this specification, the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are included in the same slot and are repeatedly transmitted.

[0020] Also, in this specification, the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are repeatedly transmitted on different slots.

[0021] Also, in this specification, the first DCI and the second DCI are decoded independently.

[0022] Also, in this specification, the first DCI and the second DCI are decoded jointly.

[0023] Also, in this specification, the configuration information regarding the first search space includes information regarding the period of the first search space, and the configuration information regarding the second search space includes information regarding the period of the second search space, and the period of the first search space and the period of the second search space are the same.

[0024] Also, in this specification, the type of the first search space and the type of the second search space are the same, and the type of the first search space and the type of the second search space are either a common search space or a UE specific search space.

[0025] Also in this specification, a method for transmitting a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system, which is performed by a base station, includes the steps of: transmitting configuration information regarding a first control resource set (CORESET) to a terminal; transmitting configuration information regarding a second CORESET to the terminal; transmitting a first PDCCH on the first CORESET to the terminal; and transmitting a second PDCCH on the second CORESET to the terminal, wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are repeatedly transmitted to the terminal, respectively, and the first downlink control information (DCI) included in the first PDCCH and the second DCI included in the second PDCCH are identical. [Effects of the Invention]

[0026] The present specification aims to improve the reliability of PDCCH reception by allowing a terminal to receive the same DCI on multiple PDCCHs.

[0027] An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for efficiently transmitting and receiving physical channels and signals in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus using the same. The advantages obtained from the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned advantages, and other advantages not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description. [Brief explanation of the drawings]

[0028] [Figure 1] FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a wireless frame structure used in a wireless communication system. [Figure 2] FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a downlink (DL) / uplink (UL) slot structure in a wireless communication system. [Figure 3] 1 is a diagram illustrating physical channels used in a 3GPP system and a typical signal transmission method using the physical channels. [Figure 4a] FIG. 1 illustrates an SS / PBCH block for initial cell access in a 3GPP NR system. [Figure 4b] FIG. 1 illustrates an SS / PBCH block for initial cell access in a 3GPP NR system. [Figure 5a] FIG. 1 illustrates a procedure for transmitting control information and control channels in a 3GPP NR system. [Figure 5b] FIG. 1 illustrates a procedure for transmitting control information and control channels in a 3GPP NR system. [Figure 6] FIG. 1 illustrates a control resource set (CORESET) in which a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) may be transmitted in a 3GPP NR system. [Figure 7] FIG. 1 illustrates a method for configuring a PDCCH search space in a 3GPP NR system. [Figure 8]FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating carrier aggregation. [Figure 9] FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining single-carrier communication and multi-carrier communication. [Figure 10] A diagram showing an example in which a cross-carrier scheduling technique is applied. [Figure 11] 2A and 2B are block diagrams showing the configurations of a terminal and a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 12] A diagram showing scheduling of a physical downlink shared channel according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 13] FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating scheduling of a physical uplink control channel according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 14] FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating scheduling of a physical uplink shared channel and a physical uplink control channel according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 15] 10 is a diagram illustrating PDCCHs being repeatedly transmitted on different control resource sets according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 16] 10 is a diagram illustrating PDCCHs being repeatedly transmitted in different search spaces according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 17] 1 is a diagram illustrating that different repeat PDCCHs overlap in the time-frequency domain according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 18] 1 illustrates a problem that occurs when determining a slot in which a physical downlink shared channel is scheduled, according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 19] 1 illustrates a problem that occurs when determining a slot in which a physical uplink shared channel and a physical uplink control channel are scheduled, according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 20] FIG. 10 illustrates slots determined by a dynamic slot format indicator according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 21] 10 illustrates a problem that occurs when slots are determined by a dynamic slot format indicator according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 22] FIG. 10 illustrates a diagram showing that slots are determined based on a downlink preemption indicator according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 23] 10 illustrates a problem that occurs when a slot is determined by a downlink preemption indicator according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 24] FIG. 10 illustrates slots determined by an uplink cancellation indicator according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 25] A diagram illustrating the problem that occurs when determining slots using uplink cancellation indicators. [Figure 26] FIG. 10 illustrates a method for determining a reference slot according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 27] FIG. 10 illustrates a method for determining a reference slot according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 28] 1 is a diagram illustrating active PDCCH and repeated PDCCH reception according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 29] A diagram showing the configuration of a control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 30] A diagram showing the configuration of a control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 31] FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a control resource set composed of a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 32] FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a control resource set composed of a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 33] A diagram showing a method for designing a control resource set using a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 34] A diagram showing a method for configuring a control resource set using a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 35] 1 is a diagram illustrating a method for indexing CCEs in a frequency-first manner according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 36]1 is a diagram illustrating a method for indexing CCEs in a time-first manner according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 37] FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating PDCCH candidates based on CCEs indexed in a frequency-first manner according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 38] FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating PDCCH candidates based on CCEs indexed in a time-priority manner according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 39] FIG. 10 is a diagram showing PDCCH repeatedly received on a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 40] 10 is a diagram illustrating a terminal repeatedly receiving PDCCH candidates by applying interleaving to a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 41] A diagram showing that PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted on multiple search spaces according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 42] A diagram showing PDCCH transmission based on search space and iteration settings according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 43] 10 is a diagram illustrating PDCCHs transmitted at different starting symbol positions based on search space and iteration settings according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 44] FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a PDCCH being transmitted on multiple control resource sets according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 45] 1 is a flowchart illustrating a repetitive PDCCH transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0029] The terms used in this specification are currently widely used and general terms that are possible based on the functions of the present invention. However, the terms may be changed according to the intentions, practices, and the emergence of new technologies of those skilled in the art. In addition, in certain cases, there are terms arbitrarily selected by the applicant, and in this case, their meanings will be explained in the corresponding description of the present specification. Therefore, it is intended to be clear that the terms used in this specification should be analyzed based not only on the names of the terms but also on the substantial meaning of the terms and content throughout this specification.

[0030] Throughout this specification and the claims that follow, when an element is described as being "connected" to another element, the element may be "directly connected" to the other element or may be "electrically connected" to the other element through a third element. Furthermore, unless expressly stated to the contrary, the word "comprising" is understood to imply the inclusion of the stated elements and not the exclusion of any other elements unless otherwise specified. Moreover, limitations such as "equivalent to" or "equivalent to" based on a particular threshold value may be appropriately substituted with "greater than" or "less than," respectively, in some exemplary embodiments.

[0031] The following technologies may be used in various wireless access systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), and Single-Carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA). CDMA may be implemented by wireless technologies such as Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) or CDMA2000. TDMA may be implemented by wireless technologies such as Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) / General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) / Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE). OFDMA may be implemented by wireless technologies such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802-20, and Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA). UTRA is part of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) is part of Evolved UMTS (EUMTS) that uses Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA), and LTE-Advanced (A) is an evolved version of 3GPP LTE. 3GPP New Radio (NR) is a system designed separately from LTE / LTE-A to support enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC), and massive machine type communication (mMTC) services, which are requirements of IMT-2020. For clarity, 3GPP NR will be mainly described, but the technical idea of ​​the present invention is not limited thereto.

[0032] Unless otherwise specified herein, a base station may refer to a next-generation Node B (gNB) as defined in 3GPP NR. Furthermore, unless otherwise specified, a terminal may refer to a user equipment (UE). Hereinafter, for ease of understanding, each content will be described separately as an embodiment, but the embodiments may be used in combination with each other. In this disclosure, a configuration of a terminal may refer to a configuration by a base station. Specifically, a base station may transmit a channel or a signal to a terminal and configure parameter values ​​used in the operation of the terminal or the wireless communication system.

[0033] FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a wireless frame structure used in a wireless communication system.

[0034] Referring to FIG. 1, a wireless frame (or radio frame) used in a 3GPP NR system has a length of 10 ms (Δf max N f / 100)*T c ) In addition, a wireless frame includes 10 subframes (SF) of equal size. max =480*10 3 Hz, N f =4096, T c =1 / (Δf ref *N f,ref ), Δf ref =15*10 3 Hz and N f,ref = 2048. The 10 subframes in one wireless frame may be assigned numbers from 0 to 9. Each subframe has a length of 1 ms and may include one or more slots according to the subcarrier spacing. More specifically, in a 3GPP NR system, the subcarrier spacing that may be used is 15*2 μkHz, and μ can have values ​​of μ=0, 1, 2, 3, 4 as the subcarrier spacing configuration. That is, 15 kHz, 30 kHz, 60 kHz, 120 kHz, and 240 kHz can be used for the subcarrier spacing. One subframe with a length of 1 ms is 2 μ slots, each of which may be 2 -μ ms. 2 in one subframe μ slots, each with 0 to 2 μ In addition, slots in one wireless frame may be assigned numbers from 0 to 10*2. μ The allocated numbers may range from -1 to -1. The time resources may be distinguished by at least one of a wireless frame number (also referred to as a wireless frame index), a subframe number (also referred to as a subframe index), and a slot number (or slot index).

[0035] 2 illustrates an example of a downlink (DL) / uplink (UL) slot structure in a wireless communication system. In particular, FIG. 2 illustrates a resource grid structure for a 3GPP NR system.

[0036] Specifically, Figure 2 shows the structure of a resource grid in a 3GPP NR system. There is one resource grid per antenna port. Referring to Figure 2, a slot includes multiple Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the time domain and multiple Resource Blocks (RBs) in the frequency domain. An OFDM symbol also refers to one symbol section. Unless otherwise specified, an OFDM symbol may simply be referred to as a symbol. One RB includes 12 consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain. Referring to Figure 2, the signal transmitted from each slot is divided into N size,μ grid,x *N RB sc Book subcarrier and N slot symbmay be represented by a resource grid containing N OFDM symbols, where x=DL if the signal is a DL signal and x=UL if the signal is a UL signal. size,μ grid,x represents the number of resource blocks (RBs) according to the subcarrier spacing, which is a component of μ (x is DL or UL), and N slot symb represents the number of OFDM symbols in a slot. RB sc is the number of subcarriers that make up one RB, and N RB sc = 12. Depending on the multiple access scheme, OFDM symbols may be called cyclic shift OFDM (CP-OFDM) symbols or discrete Fourier transform spread OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) symbols.

[0037] The number of OFDM symbols included in one slot may vary according to the length of the cyclic prefix (CP). For example, in the case of a normal CP, one slot may include 14 OFDM symbols, while in the case of an extended CP, one slot may include 12 OFDM symbols. In a particular embodiment, the extended CP may be used only with 60 kHz subcarrier spacing. In FIG. 2, for convenience of explanation, one slot is configured using 14 OFDM symbols as an example, but the embodiments of the present disclosure may be similarly applied to slots having a different number of OFDM symbols. Referring to FIG. 2, each OFDM symbol is N size,μ grid,x *N RB sc The carrier frequency includes four subcarriers. The subcarrier types can be divided into data subcarriers for data transmission, reference signal subcarriers for transmitting reference signals, and guard bands. The carrier frequency is also called the center frequency (fc).

[0038] One RB is N RB sc A resource may be defined by (e.g., 12) consecutive subcarriers. For reference, a resource configured using one OFDM symbol and one subcarrier may be referred to as a resource element (RE) or tone. Thus, one RB may be defined by N slot symb *N RB sc Each resource element in the resource grid can be uniquely defined within one slot by a pair of indices (k, l), where k ranges from 0 to N in the frequency domain. size,μ grid,x *N RB sc l may be an index ranging from 0 to N in the time domain. slot symb It may be an index numbered up to -1.

[0039] In order for a UE to receive signals from or transmit signals to a base station, the time / frequency of the UE may be synchronized to the time / frequency of the base station because when the base station and the UE are synchronized, the UE can determine the time and frequency parameters needed to demodulate DL signals and transmit UL signals at the appropriate times.

[0040] Each symbol of a radio frame used in time division duplex (TDD), i.e., unpaired spectrum, may be configured with at least one of DL symbols, UL symbols, and flexible symbols. In frequency division duplex (FDD), i.e., paired spectrum, a radio frame used as a DL carrier may be configured with DL symbols or flexible symbols, and a radio frame used as a UL carrier may be configured with UL symbols or flexible symbols. DL symbols allow DL transmission but not UL transmission. UL symbols allow UL transmission but not DL transmission. Flexible symbols may be determined to be used as DL or UL according to the signal.

[0041] Information about each symbol type, i.e., information indicating any one of DL symbols, UL symbols, and flexible symbols, can be configured using cell-specific or common radio resource control (RRC) signals. In addition, information about each symbol type can be additionally configured using UE-specific or dedicated RRC signals. The base station notifies i) the duration of the cell-specific slot configuration, ii) the number of slots with only DL symbols from the beginning of the cell-specific slot configuration period, iii) the number of DL symbols from the first symbol of the slot immediately following the slot with only DL symbols, iv) the number of slots with only UL symbols from the end of the cell-specific slot configuration period, and v) the number of UL symbols from the last symbol of the slot immediately preceding the slot with only UL symbols by using cell-specific RRC signals. Here, a symbol that is not configured using either UL symbols or DL ​​symbols is a flexible symbol.

[0042] When information about the symbol type is configured using UE-specific RRC signals, the base station can signal in the cell-specific RRC signal whether the flexible symbol is a DL symbol or a UL symbol. In this case, the UE-specific RRC signal cannot change a DL symbol or a UL symbol configured using the cell-specific RRC signal to another symbol type. The UE-specific RRC signal signals the number of DL symbols among the N symbols of the corresponding slot for each slot, and the number of UL symbols among the N symbols of the corresponding slot. In this case, the DL symbols of the slot can be continuously configured using the first symbol to the i-th symbol of the slot. In addition, the UL symbols of the slot can be continuously configured using the j-th symbol to the last symbol of the slot (where i < j). Among the slots, the symbol that is not configured using either the UL symbol or the DL symbol is the flexible symbol. slot symb The number of DL symbols among the N symbols of the corresponding slot for each slot, and the N slot symb The number of UL symbols among the N symbols of the corresponding slot can be signaled. In this case, the DL symbols of the slot can be continuously configured using the first symbol to the i-th symbol of the slot. In addition, the UL symbols of the slot can be continuously configured using the j-th symbol to the last symbol of the slot (where i < j). Among the slots, the symbol that is not configured using either the UL symbol or the DL symbol is the flexible symbol.

[0043] The type of symbol composed of the RRC signal as described above is referred to as a semi-static DL / UL configuration. In the semi-static DL / UL configuration composed of the RRC signal described above, the flexible symbol is indicated as a downlink symbol, an uplink symbol, or a flexible symbol via the dynamic SFI (slot format information) transmitted on the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). At this time, the downlink symbol or uplink symbol composed of the RRC signal is not changed to another symbol type. Table 1 exemplifies the dynamic SFI indicated by the base station to the terminal.

[0044]

Table 1

[0045] In Table 1, D denotes a downlink symbol, U denotes an uplink symbol, and X denotes a flexible symbol. As shown in Table 1, up to two DL / UL switchings are allowed in one slot.

[0046] FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating physical channels used in a 3GPP system (e.g., NR) and a general signal transmission method using the physical channels.

[0047] When a UE is powered on or camps on a new cell, the UE performs an initial cell search (S101). Specifically, the UE may synchronize with a BS during the initial cell search. To this end, the UE may receive a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) from a base station to synchronize with the base station and obtain information such as a cell ID. The UE may then receive a physical broadcast channel from the base station and obtain broadcast information in the cell.

[0048] Upon completion of the initial cell search, the UE receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) according to information in the PDCCH, so that the UE can acquire system information that is more specific than the system information acquired through the initial cell search (S102). Here, the system information acquired by the UE is cell-common system information for the UE to operate correctly at the physical layer in Radio Resource Control (RRC), and is also referred to as remaining system information or system information block (SIB) 1.

[0049] When a UE first accesses a base station or does not have radio resources for signal transmission, the UE may perform a random access procedure with the base station (operations S103 to S106). First, the UE may transmit a preamble over a physical random access channel (PRACH) (S103) and receive a response message for the preamble from the base station over a PDCCH and a corresponding PDSCH (S104). If the UE receives a valid random access response message, the UE transmits data including the UE's identifier and the like to the base station over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) indicated by a UL grant transmitted from the base station over the PDCCH (S105). Next, the UE waits for reception of a PDCCH as an indication from the base station for collision resolution. If the UE successfully receives the PDCCH via the UE's identifier (S106), the random access process is terminated. During the random access process, the UE may acquire UE-specific system information required for the UE to operate correctly at the physical layer in the RRC layer. Once the UE acquires UE-specific system information at the RRC layer, the UE enters the RRC connected mode (RRC_CONNECTED mode).

[0050] The RRC layer is used to generate and manage messages for control between a terminal and a wireless access network (RAN). More specifically, the base station and terminal can perform storage management including broadcasting cell system information required for all terminals in a cell, transmission management of paging messages, mobility management and handover, terminal measurement reports and control thereof, terminal capability management, and device management at the RRC layer. Generally, the update of signals transmitted at the RRC layer (hereinafter referred to as RRC signals) is longer than the transmission / reception period (i.e., transmission time interval, TTI) at the physical layer, so that RRC signals can be maintained unchanged for a long period.

[0051] After the above-described procedure, the UE receives the PDCCH / PDSCH (S107) and transmits the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) / physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) as a general UL / DL signal transmission procedure (S108). Specifically, the UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) through the PDCCH. The DCI may include control information such as resource allocation information for the UE. The format of the DCI may vary depending on the intended use. The uplink control information (UCI) transmitted by the UE to the base station through the UL includes a DL / UL ACK / NACK signal, a channel quality indicator (CQI), a precoding matrix index (PMI), a rank indicator (RI), etc. Here, the CQI, PMI, and RI may be included in channel state information (CSI). In a 3GPP NR system, a UE may transmit control information, such as the HARQ-ACK and CSI described above, over the PUSCH and / or PUCCH.

[0052] 4a and 4b show SS / PBCH blocks for initial cell access in a 3GPP NR system.

[0053] When a UE is powered on or wants to access a new cell, it may acquire time and frequency synchronization with the cell and perform an initial cell search procedure. The UE may detect the physical cell identity (NcellID) of the cell during the cell search procedure. To this end, the UE may receive synchronization signals, such as a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), from a base station and synchronize to the base station. In this case, the UE may obtain information such as a cell identity (ID).

[0054] Referring to FIG. 4a, the synchronization signal (SS) will be described in more detail. The synchronization signal can be classified into a PSS and an SSS. The PSS can be used to obtain time-domain synchronization and / or frequency-domain synchronization, such as OFDM symbol synchronization and slot synchronization. The SSS can be used to obtain frame synchronization and a cell group ID. Referring to FIG. 4a and Table 2, an SS / PBCH block can be configured using 20 consecutive RBs (=240 subcarriers) in the frequency domain and 4 consecutive OFDM symbols in the time domain. In this case, within the SS / PBCH block, the PSS is transmitted in the first OFDM symbol, and the SSS is transmitted in the third OFDM symbol through subcarriers 56 to 182. Here, the smallest subcarrier index of the SS / PBCH block is numbered starting from 0. In the first OFDM symbol in which the PSS is transmitted, the base station does not transmit signals through the remaining subcarriers, i.e., subcarriers 0 to 55 and 183 to 239. Additionally, in the third OFDM symbol in which the SSS is transmitted, the base station does not transmit signals through subcarriers 48 to 55 and 183 to 191. The base station transmits a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) through the remaining REs in the SS / PBCH block, excluding the above signals.

[0055] [Table 2]

[0056] The SS allows a total of 1008 unique physical layer cell IDs to be grouped into 336 physical layer cell identifier groups, each group specifically including three unique identifiers through the combination of three PSSs and SSSs such that each physical layer cell ID is only part of one physical layer cell identifier group. Thus, the physical layer cell IDs N cell ID =3N (1) ID +N (2) ID is an index N ranging from 0 to 335 indicating a physical layer cell identifier group (1) ID and an index N ranging from 0 to 2 indicating a physical layer identifier within the physical layer cell identifier group. (2) ID The UE may detect the PSS and identify one of three unique physical layer identifiers. In addition, the UE may detect the SSS and identify one of 336 physical layer cell IDs associated with the physical layer identifier. In this case, the sequence d of the PSS PSS (n) is as follows:

number

[0057] where

number

number

[0058] Furthermore, the SSS series dSSS (n) is as follows:

number

[0059] where

number

number

[0060] A 10-ms radio frame may be divided into two 5-ms half-frames. Referring to Figure 4b, the slots in which the SS / PBCH blocks are transmitted within each half-frame are described. The slots in which the SS / PBCH blocks are transmitted may be any one of Cases A, B, C, D, and E. In Case A, the subcarrier spacing is 15 kHz, and the start of the SS / PBCH block is the ({2, 8} + 14*n)th symbol. In this case, n = 0 or 1 for carrier frequencies below 3 GHz. Additionally, n = 0, 1, 2, or 3 may be used for carrier frequencies above 3 GHz and below 6 GHz. In Case B, the subcarrier spacing is 30 kHz, and the start of the SS / PBCH block is {4, 8, 16, 20} + 28*n. In this case, n = 0 for carrier frequencies below 3 GHz. Additionally, n = 0 or 1 may be used for carrier frequencies above 3 GHz and below 6 GHz. In Case C, the subcarrier spacing is 30 kHz and the start of the SS / PBCH block is the ({2,8}+14*n)th symbol. In this case, n=0 or 1 for carrier frequencies below 3 GHz. Additionally, n=0, 1, 2, or 3 for carrier frequencies above 3 GHz and below 6 GHz. In Case D, the subcarrier spacing is 120 kHz and the start of the SS / PBCH block is the ({4,8,16,20}+28*n)th symbol. In this case, n=0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, or 18 for carrier frequencies above 6 GHz. In Case E, the subcarrier spacing is 240 kHz and the start of the SS / PBCH block is the ({8,12,16,20,32,36,40,44}+56*n)th symbol. In this case, n=0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 for carrier frequencies above 6 GHz.

[0061] 5a and 5b show a procedure for transmitting control information and control channels in a 3GPP NR system. Referring to FIG. 5a, a base station may add a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) masked (e.g., XORed) with a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) to control information (e.g., downlink control information (DCI)) (S202). The base station may scramble the CRC using an RNTI value determined according to the purpose / target of each control information. The common RNTI used by one or more UEs may include at least one of a system information RNTI (SI-RNTI), a paging RNTI (P-RNTI), a random access RNTI (RA-RNTI), and a transmit power control RNTI (TPC-RNTI). In addition, a UE-specific RNTI may include at least one of a cell temporary RNTI (C-RNTI) and a CS-RNTI. The base station may then perform channel coding (e.g., polar coding) (S204) and then perform rate matching according to the amount of resources used for PDCCH transmission (S206). The base station may then multiplex DCI based on a control channel element (CCE)-based PDCCH structure (S208). Additionally, the base station may apply additional processes, such as scrambling, modulation (e.g., QPSK), and interleaving, to the multiplexed DCI (S210), and then map the DCI to resources to be transmitted. A CCE is a basic resource unit for the PDCCH, and one CCE may include multiple (e.g., 6) resource element groups (REGs). One REG may be configured with multiple (e.g., 12) REs. The number of CCEs used for one PDCCH may be defined as an aggregation level.In a 3GPP NR system, aggregation levels of 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 may be used. Figure 5b is a diagram relating to CCE aggregation levels and PDCCH multiplexing, showing the type of CCE aggregation level used for one PDCCH and the CCEs transmitted in the control area accordingly.

[0062] FIG. 6 illustrates a control resource set (core set) in which a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) may be transmitted in a 3GPP NR system.

[0063] A core set is a time-frequency resource within which the PDCCH, i.e., a control signal for the UE, is transmitted. In addition, a search space, which will be described later, may be mapped to a core set. Thus, rather than monitoring all frequency bands for PDCCH reception, the UE may monitor a time-frequency region designated as a core set and decode the PDCCH mapped to the core set. A base station may configure one or more core sets for a UE per cell. A core set may be configured using up to three consecutive symbols on the time axis. Additionally, a core set may be configured in units of six consecutive PRBs on the frequency axis. In the embodiment of FIG. 6, core set #1 is configured using consecutive PRBs, and core sets #2 and #3 are configured using non-consecutive PRBs. A core set may be positioned within any symbol within a slot. For example, in the embodiment of FIG. 6, core set #1 starts in the first symbol of the slot, core set #2 starts in the fifth symbol of the slot, and core set #9 starts in the ninth symbol of the slot.

[0064] FIG. 7 illustrates a method for configuring a PDCCH search space in a 3GPP NR system.

[0065] To transmit a PDCCH to a UE, each core set may have at least one search space. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a search space is a set of all time-frequency resources (hereinafter referred to as PDCCH candidates) through which the UE's PDCCH can be transmitted. The search space may include a common search space that 3GPP NR UEs are required to search in common, and a terminal-specific or UE-specific search space that a specific UE is required to search. In the common search space, a UE may monitor a PDCCH that all UEs in a cell belonging to the same base station are configured to search in common. In addition, a UE-specific search space may be configured for each UE so that the UE monitors the PDCCH allocated to each UE at different search space positions according to the UE. In the case of a UE-specific search space, the search spaces between UEs may be partially overlapped due to the limited control areas in which the PDCCHs are allocated. Monitoring the PDCCH includes blind decoding to find PDCCH candidates within the search space. When blind decoding is successful, it may be expressed that the PDCCH is (successfully) detected / received, and when blind decoding fails, it may be expressed that the PDCCH is not detected / received or is not successfully detected / received.

[0066] For ease of description, a PDCCH scrambled with a group common (GC) RNTI previously known to one or more UEs to transmit DL control information to one or more UEs is referred to as a group common (GC) PDCCH or a common PDCCH. In addition, a PDCCH scrambled with a terminal-specific RNTI already known by a specific UE to transmit UL or DL ​​scheduling information to that UE is referred to as a UE-specific PDCCH. A common PDCCH may be included in a common search space, and a UE-specific PDCCH may be included in a common search space or a UE-specific PDCCH.

[0067] A base station may signal information related to resource allocation of the transmission channels paging channel (PCH) and downlink shared channel (DL-SCH) (i.e., DL grants) or information related to resource allocation of the uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) (i.e., UL grants) to each UE or a group of UEs via the PDCCH. The base station may transmit PCH transport blocks and DL-SCH transport blocks via the PDSCH. The base station may transmit data excluding specific control information or specific service data via the PDSCH. In addition, a UE may receive data excluding specific control information or specific service data via the PDSCH.

[0068] A base station may transmit a PDCCH to a UE (one or more UEs) including information about where PDSCH data is to be transmitted and how the PDSCH data will be received and decoded by the corresponding UE. For example, assume that the DCI transmitted on a specific PDCCH is CRC masked using an RNTI of "A," and the DCI indicates that the PDSCH is allocated to a radio resource (e.g., a frequency location) of "B," and indicates transmission format information (e.g., transport block size, modulation scheme, coding information, etc.) of "C." The UE monitors the PDCCH using the RNTI information that the UE has. In this case, if a UE performs blind decoding of the PDCCH using the RNTI of "A," the UE receives the PDCCH and, through the received PDCCH information, receives the PDSCH indicated by "B" and "C."

[0069] Table 3 illustrates one embodiment of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) used in a wireless communication system.

[0070] [Table 3]

[0071] The PUCCH may be used to transmit the following UL control information (UCI):

[0072] - Scheduling Request (SR): Information used to request UL UL-SCH resources.

[0073] - HARQ-ACK: A response to the PDCCH (indicating DL SPS release) and / or a response to a DL transport block (TB) on the PDSCH. The HARQ-ACK indicates whether information transmitted on the PDCCH or PDSCH has been received. HARQ-ACK responses include a positive ACK (simply ACK), a negative ACK (hereinafter NACK), discontinuous transmission (DTX), or NACK / DTX. Here, the term HARQ-ACK is used interchangeably with HARQ-ACK / NACK and ACK / NACK. In general, an ACK may be represented by a bit value of 1, and a NACK may be represented by a bit value of 0.

[0074] - Channel State Information (CSI): Feedback information on the DL channel. The UE generates it based on the CSI reference signal (RS) transmitted by the base station. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-related feedback information includes a rank indicator (RI) and a precoding matrix indicator (PMI). The CSI may be divided into CSI part 1 and CSI part 2 according to the information indicated by the CSI.

[0075] In a 3GPP NR system, five PUCCH formats may be used to support different service scenarios, different channel environments, and frame structures.

[0076] PUCCH format 0 is a format capable of transmitting 1-bit or 2-bit HARQ-ACK information or SR. PUCCH format 0 can be transmitted over one or two OFDM symbols on the time axis and one RB on the frequency axis. When PUCCH format 0 is transmitted in two OFDM symbols, the same sequence on the two symbols may be transmitted over different RBs. In this case, the sequence may be a cyclic shift (CS) sequence of a base sequence used for PUCCH format 0. This allows the UE to obtain frequency diversity gain. Specifically, the terminal bit Bit UCI(M bit =1 or 2) to determine the cyclic shift (CS) value m cs Also, the length 12 basic sequence can be determined by the given CS value m cs Based on this, the cyclically shifted sequence can be mapped to 12 REs of one OFDM symbol and one RB and transmitted. bit = 1, one bit UCI 0 and 1 can be mapped to two cyclic shifted sequences, respectively, with a difference in cyclic shift value of 6. bit = 2, the 2-bit UCI 00, 01, 11, 10 can be mapped to four cyclic shifted sequences with a cyclic shift value difference of 3, respectively.

[0077] PUCCH format 1 carries 1-bit or 2-bit HARQ-ACK information or SR. PUCCH format 1 is transmitted using consecutive OFDM symbols on the time axis and one PRB on the frequency axis. Here, the number of OFDM symbols occupied by PUCCH format 1 is one of 4 to 14. More specifically, bit The UCI with M = 1 is modulated by BPSK. bitThe UCI, where d(0) = 2, is modulated using quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK). The modulated complex-valued symbol d(0) is multiplied by a sequence of length 12 to obtain a signal. The terminal spreads the obtained signal using a time-domain orthogonal cover code (OCC) on even-numbered OFDM symbols assigned to PUCCH format 1 and transmits it. In PUCCH format 1, the maximum number of different terminals that can be multiplexed in the same RB is determined according to the length of the OCC used. In odd-numbered OFDM symbols of PUCCH format 1, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) is spread using OCC and mapped.

[0078] PUCCH format 2 can deliver UCI exceeding two bits. PUCCH format 2 can be transmitted over one or two OFDM symbols on the time axis and one or more RBs on the frequency axis. When PUCCH format 2 is transmitted in two OFDM symbols, the sequences transmitted in different RBs over the two OFDM symbols may be identical to each other. Here, the sequence is a set of modulated complex-valued symbols d(0), . . . ,d(M symbol -1), where M symbol is M bit / 2. Through this, the UE may obtain frequency diversity gain. More specifically, M bit Bit UCI(M bit >2) is bit-level scrambled, QPSK modulated, and mapped to RBs of one or two OFDM symbols, where the number of RBs may be one of 1 to 16.

[0079] PUCCH format 3 or PUCCH format 4 may deliver UCI exceeding 2 bits. PUCCH format 3 or PUCCH format 4 may be transmitted over consecutive OFDM symbols on the time axis and one PRB on the frequency axis. The number of OFDM symbols occupied by PUCCH format 3 or PUCCH format 4 may be one of 4 to 14. Specifically, the UE may transmit M-ary PUCCH using π / 2-2 phase shift keying (BPSK) or QPSK. bit The complex-valued symbols d(0) to d(M symb -1) where, when π / 2-BPSK is used, M symb =M bit and when using QPSK, M symb =M bit / 2. The UE does not need to apply block-wise spreading to PUCCH format 3. However, the UE may apply block-wise spreading to one RB (i.e., 12 subcarriers) using PreDFT-OCC of length 12, such that PUCCH format 4 may have a multiplexing capacity of 2 or 4. The UE performs transmit precoding (or DFT precoding) on ​​the spread signal, maps it to each RE, and transmits the spread signal.

[0080] In this case, the number of RBs occupied by PUCCH format 2, PUCCH format 3, or PUCCH format 4 may be determined according to the length and maximum code rate of the UCI transmitted by the UE. When the UE uses PUCCH format 2, the UE may transmit HARQ-ACK information and CSI information together over the PUCCH. When the number of RBs that the UE can transmit is greater than the maximum number of RBs that PUCCH format 2, PUCCH format 3, or PUCCH format 4 can use, the UE may transmit only the remaining UCI information without transmitting some of the UCI information according to the priority of the UCI information.

[0081] PUCCH Format 1, PUCCH Format 3, or PUCCH Format 4 may be configured through RRC signaling to indicate frequency hopping within a slot. When frequency hopping is configured, the index of the RB to be frequency hopped may be configured using RRC signaling. When PUCCH Format 1, PUCCH Format 3, or PUCCH Format 4 is transmitted over N OFDM symbols on the time axis, the first hop may have floor(N / 2) OFDM symbols, and the second hop may have ceil(N / 2) OFDM symbols.

[0082] PUCCH Format 1, PUCCH Format 3, or PUCCH Format 4 may be configured to be repeatedly transmitted in multiple slots. In this case, the number K of slots in which the PUCCH is repeatedly transmitted may be configured by RRC signaling. The repeatedly transmitted PUCCH must start at a fixed OFDM symbol in each slot and must have a constant length. When one of the OFDM symbols of a slot in which the UE should transmit the PUCCH is indicated as a DL symbol by RRC signaling, the UE may not transmit the PUCCH in the corresponding slot and may delay transmission of the PUCCH until the next slot for transmitting the PUCCH.

[0083] Meanwhile, in a 3GPP NR system, a terminal can transmit and receive using a bandwidth smaller than or equal to the bandwidth of a carrier (or cell). To this end, the terminal may be configured with a bandwidth part (BWP) consisting of a contiguous portion of the carrier's bandwidth. A terminal operating according to TDD or using an unpaired spectrum may be configured with up to four DL / UL BWP pairs per carrier (or cell). The terminal can also activate one DL / UL BWP pair. A terminal operating according to FDD or using a paired spectrum may be configured with up to four DL BWPs per downlink carrier (or cell) and up to four UL BWPs per uplink carrier (or cell). The terminal can activate one DL BWP and one UL BWP per carrier (or cell). The terminal does not need to receive or transmit on time-frequency resources other than the activated BWPs. An activated BWP can be referred to as an active BWP.

[0084] A base station can indicate to a terminal which BWPs among configured BWPs are activated using downlink control information (DCI). The BWP indicated in the DCI is activated, and other configured BWPs are deactivated. In a carrier (or cell) operating in TDD, the base station can include a bandwidth part indicator (BPI) indicating the activated BWP in the DCI scheduling a PDSCH or a PUSCH to change the DL / UL BWP pair of the terminal. The terminal can receive the DCI scheduling a PDSCH or a PUSCH and identify the activated DL / UL BWP pair based on the BPI. In a downlink carrier (or cell) operating in FDD, the base station can include a BPI indicating the activated BWP in the DCI scheduling a PDSCH to change the DL BWP of the terminal. In an uplink carrier (or cell) operating in FDD, the base station can include a BPI indicating the activated BWP in the DCI scheduling a PDSCH to change the UL BWP of the terminal.

[0085] FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram illustrating carrier aggregation.

[0086] Carrier aggregation is a method in which a UE uses multiple frequency blocks or cells (in a logical sense) configured using UL resources (or component carriers) and / or DL ​​resources (or component carriers) as one large logical frequency band so that a wireless communication system can use a wider frequency band. One component carrier may also be referred to as a primary cell (PCell) or a secondary cell (SCell), or a primary SCell (PScell). However, for convenience of explanation, the term "component carrier" will be used hereinafter.

[0087] Referring to Figure 8, as an example of a 3GPP NR system, the overall system band may include up to 16 component carriers, and each component carrier may have a bandwidth of up to 400 MHz. A component carrier may include one or more physically contiguous subcarriers. Although Figure 8 shows each of the component carriers having the same bandwidth, this is merely an example, and each component carrier may have a different bandwidth. Also, although the component carriers are shown as being adjacent to each other on the frequency axis, the drawing is shown in a logical concept, and the component carriers may be physically adjacent to each other or spaced apart.

[0088] A different center frequency may be used for each component carrier. Also, one common center frequency may be used for physically adjacent component carriers. In the embodiment of Figure 8, assuming that all component carriers are physically adjacent, center frequency A may be used for all component carriers. Furthermore, assuming that the respective component carriers are not physically adjacent to each other, center frequency A and center frequency B may be used for each of the component carriers.

[0089] When the overall system band is expanded by carrier aggregation, the frequency band used for communication with each UE may be specified in component carrier units. UE A may use the overall system band of 100 MHz and perform communication using all five component carriers. UEs B1 to B5 may use only a 20 MHz bandwidth and perform communication using one component carrier. UEs C1 and C2 may use a 40 MHz bandwidth and each perform communication using two component carriers. The example in FIG. 8 shows a case where UE C1 uses two non-adjacent component carriers and UE C2 uses two adjacent component carriers.

[0090] 9A and 9B are diagrams for explaining single-carrier communication and multi-carrier communication. Specifically, FIG. 9A shows a single-carrier subframe structure, and FIG. 9B shows a multi-carrier subframe structure.

[0091] 9(a), in an FDD mode, a typical wireless communication system may perform data transmission or data reception through one DL band and one UL band corresponding thereto. In another specific embodiment, in a TDD mode, a wireless communication system may divide a radio frame into UL time units and DL time units in the time domain, and may perform data transmission or data reception through the UL / DL time units. Referring to Figure 9(b), three 20 MHz component carriers (CCs) may be aggregated in each of the UL and DL to support a 60 MHz bandwidth. The CCs may or may not be adjacent to each other in the frequency domain. While Figure 9(b) illustrates a case where the bandwidths of the UL CC and the DL CC are identical and symmetrical, the bandwidth of each CC may be determined independently. Additionally, asymmetric carrier aggregation, in which the number of UL CCs and the number of DL CCs differ, is possible. The DL / UL CC allocated / configured to a specific UE through RRC may be referred to as the serving DL / UL CC of the specific UE.

[0092] A base station may communicate with a UE by activating some or all of the UE's serving CCs or deactivating some CCs. The base station can change the CCs to be activated / deactivated and the number of CCs to be activated / deactivated. When a base station allocates CCs available to a UE as cell-specific or UE-specific, at least one of the allocated CCs may be deactivated unless the CC allocation for the UE is completely reconfigured or the UE is handed over. A CC that is not deactivated by the UE is called a Primary CC (PCC) or a Primary Cell (PCell), and a CC that the base station can activate / deactivate freely is called a Secondary CC (SCC) or a Secondary Cell (SCell).

[0093] On the other hand, 3GPP NR uses the concept that a cell manages radio resources. A cell is defined as a combination of DL resources and UL resources, i.e., a combination of DL CC and UL CC. A cell can be configured with only DL resources or a combination of DL resources and UL resources. When carrier aggregation is supported, the association between the carrier frequency of DL resources (i.e., DL CC) and the carrier frequency of UL resources (i.e., UL CC) may be indicated by system information. Carrier frequency refers to the center frequency of each cell or CC. A cell corresponding to a PCC is called a PCell, and a cell corresponding to an SCC is called an SCell. A carrier corresponding to a PCell in the DL is a DL PCC, and a carrier corresponding to a PCell in the UL is a UL PCC. Similarly, a carrier corresponding to an SCell in the DL is a DL SCC, and a carrier corresponding to an SCell in the UL is a UL SCC. According to UE capabilities, a serving cell can be configured with one PCell and zero or more SCells. For a UE that is in RRC_CONNECTED state but is not configured for or does not support carrier aggregation, there is only one serving cell configured with only a PCell.

[0094] As mentioned above, the term "cell" used in carrier aggregation is distinguished from the term "cell" which refers to several geographical areas for which communication services are provided by one base station or one antenna group. That is, one component carrier may also be referred to as a scheduling cell, scheduled cell, primary cell (PCell), secondary cell (SCell), or primary SCell (PScell). However, to distinguish between cells which refer to several geographical areas and cells of carrier aggregation, in this disclosure, cells of carrier aggregation are referred to as CCs, and cells of geographical areas are referred to as cells.

[0095] 10 illustrates an example in which a cross-carrier scheduling technique is applied. When cross-carrier scheduling is configured, a control channel transmitted over a first CC may schedule a data channel transmitted over the first CC or a second CC using a carrier indicator field (CIF). The CIF is included in the DCI. In other words, a scheduling cell is configured, and a DL grant / UL grant transmitted in the PDCCH area of ​​the scheduling cell schedules the PDSCH / PUSCH of the scheduled cell. That is, a search area for multiple component carriers exists in the PDCCH area of ​​the scheduling cell. A PCell may essentially be the scheduling cell, and a specific SCell may be designated as the scheduling cell by higher layers.

[0096] In the embodiment of FIG. 10, it is assumed that three DL CCs are merged. Here, it is assumed that DL component carrier #0 is a DL PCC (or PCell), and DL component carrier #1 and DL component carrier #2 are DL SCCs (or SCells). In addition, it is assumed that the DL PCC is configured as a PDCCH monitoring CC. When cross-carrier scheduling is not configured by UE-specific (or UE group-specific or cell-specific) higher layer signaling, the CIF is disabled, and each DL CC can transmit only a PDCCH for scheduling its PDSCH without using a CIF according to the NR PDCCH rules (non-cross-carrier scheduling, self-carrier scheduling). On the other hand, when cross-carrier scheduling is configured by UE-specific (or UE group-specific or cell-specific) higher layer signaling, the CIF is enabled, and a specific CC (e.g., a DL PCC) may transmit not only a PDCCH for scheduling a PDSCH of DL CC A using the CIF, but also a PDCCH for scheduling a PDSCH of another CC (cross-carrier scheduling). On the other hand, the PDCCH is not transmitted in another DL CC. Thus, the UE monitors either the PDCCH without a CIF to receive a self-carrier scheduled PDSCH or the PDCCH with a CIF to receive a cross-carrier scheduled PDSCH, depending on whether cross-carrier scheduling is configured for the UE.

[0097] 9 and 10 show the subframe structure of a 3GPP LTE-A system, and the same or similar configurations may be applied to a 3GPP NR system, except that in a 3GPP NR system, the subframes in FIGS. 9 and 10 may be replaced with slots.

[0098] FIG. 11 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a terminal and a base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0099] In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal may be embodied as various wireless communication devices or computer devices that ensure portability and mobility. The terminal may also be referred to as User Equipment (UE), Station (STA), Mobile Subscriber (MS), etc. In addition, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the base station controls and manages cells (e.g., macrocells, femtocells, picocells, etc.) corresponding to a service area, and may have functions such as signal transmission, channel assignment, channel monitoring, self-diagnosis, and relaying. The base station may also be referred to as a next generation Node B (gNB) or Access Point (AP), etc.

[0100] As shown, a terminal 100 according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may include a processor 110 , a communication module 120 , a memory 130 , a user interface 140 , and a display unit 150 .

[0101] First, the processor 110 can execute various instructions or programs to process data within the terminal 100. The processor 110 can also control the overall operation of the terminal 100, including each unit, and control data transmission and reception between the units. Here, the processor 110 may be configured to perform operations according to the embodiments described in the present disclosure. For example, the processor 110 can receive slot configuration information, determine a slot configuration based on the received information, and perform communication according to the determined slot configuration.

[0102] Next, the communication module 120 may be an integrated module that performs wireless communication using a wireless communication network and wireless LAN connection using a wireless LAN. To this end, the communication module 120 may include multiple network interface cards (NICs) such as cellular communication interface cards 121 and 122 and an unlicensed band communication interface card 123, either built-in or external. Although the communication module 120 is shown as an integrated module in the figure, each network interface card may be independently arranged depending on the circuit configuration or application, unlike the drawing.

[0103] The cellular communication interface card 121 can transmit and receive wireless signals to and from at least one of the base station 200, an external device, and a server using a mobile communication network, and can provide cellular communication services in a first frequency band based on instructions from the processor 110. According to one embodiment, the cellular communication interface card 121 can include at least one NIC module using a frequency band below 6 GHz. The at least one NIC module of the cellular communication interface card 121 can independently perform cellular communication with at least one of the base station 200, an external device, and a server in accordance with a cellular communication standard or protocol for the frequency band below 6 GHz supported by the NIC module.

[0104] The cellular communication interface card 122 transmits and receives wireless signals to and from at least one of the base station 200, the external device, and the server using a mobile communication network, and can provide cellular communication services using the second frequency band based on instructions from the processor 110. According to one embodiment, the cellular communication interface card 122 can include at least one NIC module using a frequency band above 6 GHz. The at least one NIC module of the cellular communication interface card 122 can independently perform cellular communication with at least one of the base station 200, the external device, and the server in accordance with a cellular communication standard or protocol for the frequency band above 6 GHz supported by the NIC module.

[0105] The unlicensed band communication interface card 123 transmits and receives wireless signals to and from at least one of the base station 200, an external device, and a server using a third frequency band, which is an unlicensed band, and provides unlicensed band communication services based on instructions from the processor 110. The unlicensed band communication interface card 123 may include at least one NIC module that uses an unlicensed band. For example, the unlicensed band may be 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, 6 GHz, 7 GHz, or 52.6 GHz or higher. The at least one NIC module of the unlicensed band communication interface card 123 can wirelessly communicate with at least one of the base station 200, an external device, and a server, independently or dependently, in accordance with the unlicensed band communication standard or protocol of the frequency band supported by the NIC module.

[0106] Next, the memory 130 stores control programs and various data used by the terminal 100. Such control programs may include predetermined programs required for the terminal 100 to perform wireless communication with at least one of the base station 200, an external device, and a server.

[0107] Next, the user interface 140 includes various forms of input / output means provided in the terminal 100. That is, the user interface 140 can receive user input using various input means, and the processor 110 can control the terminal 100 based on the received user input. Also, the user interface 140 can perform output based on instructions from the processor 110 using various output means.

[0108] The display unit 150 then outputs various images to a display screen, and can output various display objects, such as content executed by the processor 110 or a user interface based on control instructions of the processor 110.

[0109] Furthermore, the base station 200 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a processor 210, a communication module 220, and a memory 230.

[0110] First, the processor 210 can execute various instructions or programs to process data within the base station 200. The processor 210 can also control the overall operation of the base station 200, including each unit, and control data transmission and reception between the units. Here, the processor 210 may be configured to perform operations according to the embodiments described in this disclosure. For example, the processor 210 can signal slot configuration information and perform communication according to the signaled slot configuration.

[0111] Next, the communication module 220 may be an integrated module that performs wireless communication using a wireless communication network and wireless LAN connection using a wireless LAN. To this end, the communication module 220 may include multiple network interface cards, such as cellular communication interface cards 221 and 222 and an unlicensed band communication interface card 223, in an internal or external form. Although the communication module 220 is shown as an integrated module in the figure, each network interface card may be independently arranged depending on the circuit configuration or application, unlike the drawing.

[0112] The cellular communication interface card 221 can transmit and receive wireless signals to and from at least one of the terminal 100, the external device, and the server using a mobile communication network, and can provide cellular communication services using the first frequency band based on instructions from the processor 210. According to one embodiment, the cellular communication interface card 221 can include at least one NIC module using a frequency band below 6 GHz. The at least one NIC module of the cellular communication interface card 221 can independently perform cellular communication with at least one of the terminal 100, the external device, and the server in accordance with a cellular communication standard or protocol for the frequency band below 6 GHz supported by the NIC module.

[0113] The cellular communication interface card 222 can transmit and receive wireless signals to and from at least one of the terminal 100, an external device, and a server using a mobile communication network, and can provide cellular communication services using the second frequency band based on instructions from the processor 210. According to one embodiment, the cellular communication interface card 222 can include at least one NIC module using a frequency band above 6 GHz. The at least one NIC module of the cellular communication interface card 222 can independently perform cellular communication with at least one of the terminal 100, an external device, and a server in accordance with a cellular communication standard or protocol for the frequency band above 6 GHz supported by the NIC module.

[0114] The unlicensed band communication interface card 223 transmits and receives wireless signals to and from at least one of the terminal 100, an external device, and a server using a third frequency band, which is an unlicensed band, and provides unlicensed band communication services based on instructions from the processor 210. The unlicensed band communication interface card 223 may include at least one NIC module using an unlicensed band. For example, the unlicensed band may be 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, 6 GHz, 7 GHz, or 52.6 GHz or higher. The at least one NIC module of the unlicensed band communication interface card 223 can perform wireless communication with at least one of the terminal 100, an external device, and a server, independently or dependently, in accordance with the unlicensed band communication standard or protocol of the frequency band supported by the NIC module.

[0115] The terminal 100 and base station 200 shown in FIG. 11 are block diagrams according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the separated blocks indicate logically distinct device elements. Therefore, the above-described device elements may be implemented as a single chip or multiple chips depending on the device design. In addition, some components of the terminal 100, such as the user interface 140 and the display unit 150, may be selectively provided in the terminal 100. In addition, the user interface 140 and the display unit 150 may be further provided in the base station 200 as necessary.

[0116] A terminal can receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmitted from a base station. In order for the terminal to receive the downlink control channel from the base station, information such as a control resource set (CORESET) or a search space may be configured in the terminal.

[0117] The control resource set may include information on a frequency domain in which the physical downlink control channel is to be received. Specifically, the base station may provide information on the control resource set to the terminal, and the information on the control resource set may include an index of a PRB (Physical Resource Block) or a PRB set in which the terminal is to receive the physical downlink control channel and the number of consecutive symbols. In this case, the number of consecutive symbols may be one of 1, 2, and 3.

[0118] The search space may include time information for receiving a set of PRBs indicated by the control resource set. Specifically, the base station may provide information about the search space to the terminal, and the information about the search space may include at least one of periodicity and offset. Here, the periodicity and offset may be set in units of a slot, a sub-slot, a symbol, a symbol set, or a slot set. The information about the search space may include a CCE aggregation level (AL) received by the terminal, the number of PDCCHs monitored by the terminal for each CCE aggregation level, a search space type, a DCI format monitored by the terminal, and RNTI information.

[0119] The CCE aggregation level may have at least one value of 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16. The terminal can monitor the PDCCH with the same number of CCEs as the value of the CCE aggregation level.

[0120] The search space can be divided into two types. Specifically, the search space can be divided into a common search space (CSS) and a UE-specific search space. The common search space may be a search space in which all UEs in a cell or some UEs in the cell commonly monitor the PDCCH. A UE can receive the PDCCH by monitoring PDCCH candidates (e.g., PDCCHs carrying DCIs with CRCs scrambled with at least one RNTI selected from SI-RNTI, RA-RNTI, MsgB-RNTI, P-RNTI, TC-RNTI, INT-RNTI, SFI-RNTI, TPC-PUSCH-RNTI, TPC-PUCCH-RNTI, TPC-SRS-RNTI, CI-RNTI, C-RNTI, MCS-C-RNTI, CS-RNTI, or PS-RNTI) broadcast to all UEs in the cell or some UEs in the cell in the common search space. The terminal-specific search space may be a search space in which a specific terminal monitors a PDCCH. A specific terminal can receive a PDCCH by monitoring candidates for a PDCCH (e.g., a PDCCH carrying a DCI having a CRC scrambled with at least one RNTI selected from C-RNTI, MCS-C-RNTI, SP-CSI-RNTI, CS-RNTI, SL-RNTI, SL-CS-RNTI, or SL-L-CS-RNTI) transmitted to the specific terminal in the terminal-specific search space. In addition, the terminal can receive a PDCCH including DCI instructing reception of a physical downlink shared channel, transmission of a physical uplink control channel, or transmission of a physical uplink shared channel in the common search space and the terminal-specific search space.

[0121] The DCI formats monitored by a terminal scheduled to transmit a PUSCH and receive a PDSCH from a base station may be DCI formats 0_0, 0_1, 0_2, 1_0, 1_1, and 1_2. In DCI formats 0_0, 0_1, 0_2, 1_0, 1_1, and 1_2, the RNTI information may include at least one of CS-RNTI, MCS-C-RNTI, and C-RNTI. Here, the CS-RNTI may be used to activate / release a semi-statically scheduled (Semi-Persistent Scheduling, SPS) PDSCH or a configured grant (CG) PUSCH. The CS-RNTI may also be used to schedule retransmission of an SPS PDSCH or a CG PUSCH. Here, the MCS-C-RNTI may be used to schedule a PDSCH or a PUSCH that uses a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) with high reliability. The C-RNTI may be used to schedule a PDSCH or a PUSCH.

[0122] The DCI format that may be included in the PDCCH monitored by the terminal may further include the following information.

[0123] DCI format 2_0 may include information about a dynamic slot format indicator (SFI) that indicates the direction of symbols constituting a slot. In this case, the symbol direction may be uplink, downlink, or flexible. Symbols having an uplink direction are used for uplink transmission, symbols having a downlink direction are used for downlink reception, and symbols having a flexible direction may be used for both uplink transmission and downlink reception. The RNTI used for DCI format 2_0 may be the SFI-RNTI.

[0124] DCI format 2_1 may include a DL preemption indication or an interrupted transmission indication, which indicates that there is no downlink transmission on a PRB and symbol from the base station to the terminal. The RNTI used for DCI format 2_1 may be INT-RNTI.

[0125] DCI format 2_4 may include an uplink cancellation indication, which instructs the UE to cancel uplink transmission on the PRB to the base station. The RNTI used for DCI format 2_4 may be the CI-RNTI.

[0126] The UE can determine PDCCH candidates from which to receive the PDCCH based on the configured control resource set and search space information. The UE can monitor the PDCCH candidates, check the CRC according to the RNTI value, and then determine whether the correct PDCCH has been received. The RNTI value can include at least C-RNTI, MCS-C-RNTI, CS-RNTI, as well as SFI-RNTI, INT-RNTI, and CI-RNTI values.

[0127] When a terminal receives a PDCCH, the terminal decodes information about a control resource set and a search space based on the DCI included in the PDCCH and performs an operation indicated by the DCI. In this case, the format of the DCI included in the PDCCH received by the terminal may be one of DCI formats 0_0, 0_1, and 0_2 for scheduling a PUSCH. In addition, the format of the DCI included in the PDCCH received by the terminal may be one of DCI formats 1_0, 1_1, and 1_2 for scheduling a PDSCH. In addition, the format of the DCI included in the PDCCH received by the terminal may be one of DCI formats 1_0, 1_1, and 1_2 for scheduling a PUCCH. In this case, the PUCCH may include HARQ-ACK information. In addition, the format of the DCI included in the PDCCH received by the terminal may be one of DCI formats 2_0, 2_1, and 2_4.

[0128] When a terminal receives DCI of DCI format 1_0, 1_1, or 1_2 that schedules a PDSCH, the terminal can receive the PDSCH scheduled by the DCI. To do this, the terminal must determine the scheduled slot of the PDSCH and the starting index and length (number of symbols) of the symbols within the slot based on the received DCI. The time domain resource assignment (TDRA) field of the DCI of DCI format 1_0, 1_1, or 1_2 received by the terminal may indicate a K0 value, which is timing information of the scheduled slot, and a starting length indicator value (SLIV) value, which is the index and length of the starting symbol within the slot. Here, the K0 value may be a non-negative integer value. Here, the SLIV may be a value obtained by jointly encoding the index (S) and length (L) values ​​of the starting symbol within the slot. The index (S) and length (L) values ​​of the starting symbol within the slot may be values ​​that are transmitted separately. Here, S may have one of 0, 1, . . . , 13 in a normal CP. In this case, L may have a value of one of the natural numbers that satisfy the condition that S+L is less than or equal to 14. In the extended CP, S may have a value of one of 0, 1, ..., 11. In this case, L may have a value of one of the natural numbers that satisfy the condition that S+L is less than or equal to 12.

[0129] The UE may determine a slot in which to receive the PDSCH based on the K0 value. Specifically, the UE may determine a slot in which to receive the PDSCH based on the K0 value, the index of the slot in which the DCI is received, the subcarrier spacing (SCS) of the downlink BWP in which the DCI is received, and the subcarrier spacing of the downlink BWP in which the scheduled PDSCH is received.

[0130] For example, the subcarrier spacing of the downlink BWP receiving the DCI and the downlink BWP receiving the scheduled PDSCH may be the same, and the DCI may be received in downlink slot n. In this case, the UE may receive the PDSCH in downlink slot n+K0. In this specification, slot x may refer to the slot having index x or the x-th slot.

[0131] For example, the subcarrier spacing of the downlink BWP that receives DCI may be 15 kHz*2^mu_PDCCH, the subcarrier spacing of the downlink BWP that receives the scheduled PDSCH may be 15 kHz*2^mu_PDSCH, and the UE may receive DCI in downlink slot n. The index of downlink slot n may be an index according to the subcarrier spacing of the downlink BWP in which the UE receives DCI. In this case, the UE may receive the PDSCH in slot floor(n*2^mu_PDSCH / 2^mu_PDCCH)+K0. In this case, floor(n*2^mu_PDSCH / 2^mu_PDCCH)+K0 may be an index determined by the subcarrier spacing of the downlink BWP in which the PDSCH is transmitted. mu_PDCCH and mu_PDSCH may have values ​​of 0, 1, 2, and 3.

[0132] FIG. 12 illustrates scheduling of a physical downlink shared channel according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0133] 12, a UE can receive a PDCCH that schedules a PDSCH in downlink slot (DL slot) n. DCI included in the PDCCH can indicate K0 as 3 (K0=3). In this case, if the subcarrier spacing of the DL BWP in which the PDCCH is transmitted is the same as the subcarrier spacing of the DL BWP in which the PDSCH is scheduled, the UE can determine that the PDSCH is scheduled in downlink slot n+K0, i.e., slot n+3.

[0134] The terminal can determine the slot to receive the PDSCH using the K0 value, and can determine the symbols to transmit the PDSCH using the index (S) of the starting symbol in the slot to receive the PDSCH and the length (L) values. The symbols to transmit the PDSCH may be symbol S to symbol S+L-1 in the slot calculated based on the K0 value. Symbol S to symbol S+L-1 may be L consecutive symbols.

[0135] The terminal may be further configured for downlink slot aggregation from the base station, where the downlink slot aggregation may have a value of 2, 4, or 8. Once configured for downlink slot aggregation, the terminal can receive PDSCH in consecutive slots according to the slot aggregation value, starting from the slot determined based on the K0 value.

[0136] When a terminal receives DCI formats 1_0, 1_1, and 1_2, which are DCIs for scheduling a PUCCH, the terminal can transmit the PUCCH scheduled by the DCI to the base station. In this case, the PUCCH can include HARQ-ACK information. A "PDSCH-to-HARQ_feedback timing indicator" field included in DCI formats 1_0, 1_1, and 1_2 can indicate a K1 value, which is information about a slot in which the scheduled PUCCH can be transmitted. K1 may have a non-negative integer value. DCI format 1_0 can indicate one of {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} as the K1 value. The K1 value that can be indicated in DCI formats 1_1 and 1_2 may be configured or set by a higher layer. The HARQ-ACK information may indicate whether or not two types of channels have been successfully received. The first type may be HARQ-ACK information indicating whether the terminal has successfully received the PDSCH when the PDSCH is scheduled for the terminal by DCI of DCI format 1_0, 1_1, or 1_2. The second type may be HARQ-ACK information indicating whether the terminal has received the DCI instructing the release of the SPS PDSCH when the DCI of DCI format 1_0, 1_1, or 1_2 received by the terminal indicates the release of the SPS PDSCH.

[0137] The UE may determine the uplink slot in which the PUCCH including the first type of HARQ-ACK information is transmitted as follows. The UE may determine the slot in which the PUCCH is transmitted based on the uplink slot overlapping with the last symbol in which the PDSCH corresponding to the HARQ-ACK information is transmitted. For example, if the index of the uplink slot is m, the UE may determine the index of the uplink slot in which the PUCCH including the HARQ-ACK information is transmitted as m+K1. The index of the uplink slot may be a value determined based on the subcarrier spacing of the BWP in which the PUCCH is transmitted. When the UE is configured for downlink slot aggregation, the last symbol in which the PDSCH is transmitted may be the last symbol in which the PDSCH is scheduled in the last slot among the slots in which the PDSCH is received.

[0138] FIG. 13 shows scheduling of a physical uplink control channel according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0139] Referring to FIG. 13, the UE may receive a PDCCH scheduling a PDSCH in downlink slot n. In this case, the DCI included in the PDCCH may indicate that the K0 value is 3 and the K1 value is 2. In addition, the subcarrier spacing of the DL BWP in which the PDCCH is received, the subcarrier spacing of the DL BWP in which the PDSCH is scheduled, and the subcarrier spacing of the UL BWP in which the PUCCH is transmitted may be the same. In this case, the UE may receive the PDSCH in downlink slot n+K0, i.e., downlink slot n+3. The UE may determine an uplink slot that overlaps with the last symbol of the PDSCH scheduled in downlink slot n+3. In this case, the last symbol of the PDSCH scheduled in downlink slot n+3 overlaps with uplink slot n+3. Therefore, the UE may transmit a PUCCH including first-type HARQ-ACK information in uplink slot n+3+K1, i.e., slot n+5.

[0140] Furthermore, the terminal may determine the slot in which the PUCCH including the second type of HARQ-ACK information is transmitted as follows. The terminal may determine the uplink slot overlapping with the last symbol in which the PDCCH corresponding to the second type of HARQ-ACK information is transmitted as the slot in which the second type of HARQ-ACK information is transmitted. When the index of the uplink slot is m, the terminal may transmit the PUCCH including the second type of HARQ-ACK information in uplink slot m+K1. In this case, the index of the uplink slot may be determined according to the subcarrier spacing of the uplink BWP in which the PUCCH is transmitted.

[0141] FIG. 14 illustrates scheduling of the physical uplink shared channel and the physical uplink control channel according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0142] Referring to FIG. 14, the UE may receive DCI instructing the release of the SPS PDSCH in downlink slot n. In this case, the DCI may indicate that the K1 value is 3. The subcarrier spacing of the DL BWP in which the PDCCH is received may be the same as the subcarrier spacing of the UL BWP in which the PUCCH is transmitted. In this case, the UE may determine an uplink slot that overlaps with the last symbol of the PDCCH received in slot n. The UE may determine that a PUCCH including HARQ-ACK information in the DCI instructing the release of the SPS PDSCH is scheduled in uplink slot n+K1, i.e., n+3.

[0143] When a terminal receives DCI format 0_0, 0_1, or 0_2, which is DCI for scheduling a PUSCH, the terminal can transmit the scheduled PUSCH to a base station. To do this, the terminal must determine the slot in which the PUSCH is scheduled and the starting index and length (number of symbols) of the symbols in the slot from the DCI. The time domain resource assignment (TDRA) field of DCI format 0_0, 0_1, or 0_2 can indicate a K2 value, which is information about the slot in which the PUSCH is scheduled, and a starting length indicator value (SLIV), which is a value for information about the index and length of the starting symbol in the slot. Here, K2 may have a non-negative integer value. Here, the SLIV may be a value obtained by jointly encoding the index (S) and length (L) of the starting symbol in the slot. Alternatively, the SLIV may separately indicate the index (S) and length (L) of the starting symbol in the slot. Here, S may have one of the values ​​0, 1, . . . , 13 in the normal CP, and L may have one of the values ​​of natural numbers such that S+L is less than or equal to 14. In the extended CP, S may have one of the values ​​0, 1, . . . , 11, and L may have one of the values ​​of natural numbers such that S+L is less than or equal to 12.

[0144] The UE may determine the slot in which the PUSCH is transmitted based on the K2 value. Specifically, the UE may determine the slot in which the PUSCH is transmitted based on the K2 value, the index of the slot in which the DCI is transmitted, the subcarrier spacing of the downlink BWP in which the DCI is transmitted, and the subcarrier spacing of the uplink BWP in which the PUSCH is transmitted.

[0145] For example, if the subcarrier spacing of the downlink BWP in which the DCI is transmitted and the uplink BWP in which the scheduled PUSCH is transmitted are the same, and the terminal receives the DCI in downlink slot n, the terminal can transmit the PUSCH in uplink slot n+K2.

[0146] For example, if the subcarrier spacing of a downlink BWP in which a DCI is transmitted is 15 kHz*2^mu_PDCCH and the subcarrier spacing of an uplink BWP in which a scheduled PUSCH is transmitted is 15 kHz*2^mu_PUSCH, the UE can receive the DCI in downlink slot n. Here, the index of downlink slot n may be determined by the subcarrier spacing of the downlink BWP in which the DCI is transmitted. In this case, the UE can transmit the PUSCH in slot floor(n*2^mu_PUSCH / 2^mu_PDCCH)+K2. The index of the uplink slot floor(n*2^mu_PUSCH / 2^mu_PDCCH)+K2 may be determined by the subcarrier spacing of the uplink BWP in which the PUSCH is transmitted. mu_PDCCH and mu_PUSCH may have values ​​of 0, 1, 2, and 3.

[0147] Referring to Figure 14, a UE may receive a PDCCH that schedules a PUSCH in downlink slot n. DCI included in the PDCCH may indicate that the K2 value is 3. The subcarrier spacing of a DL BWP in which the PDCCH is transmitted may be the same as the subcarrier spacing of a UL BWP in which the PUSCH is transmitted. In this case, the UE may determine that a PUSCH is scheduled in uplink slot n+K2, i.e., slot n+3.

[0148] The terminal determines a slot for transmitting the PUSCH based on the K2 value, and can determine symbols for transmitting the PUSCH using the index (S) of the start symbol and the length (L) in the determined slot. Specifically, the symbols for transmitting the PUSCH may be symbol S to symbol S+L-1 in the slot determined based on the K2 value. Symbol S to symbol S+L-1 may be L consecutive symbols.

[0149] In addition, the UE may be configured with an uplink slot aggregation from the base station. The uplink slot aggregation value may be 2, 4, or 8. When the UE is configured with an uplink slot aggregation, the UE can transmit PUSCH on consecutive slots corresponding to the slot aggregation value, starting from the slot determined based on the K2 value.

[0150] 12 to 14, the terminal can use the K0, K1, and K2 values ​​to determine a slot in which a scheduled PDSCH is transmitted, a slot in which a PUCCH is transmitted, and a slot in which a PUSCH is transmitted. In this specification, a slot determined when the K0, K1, and K2 values ​​are 0 can be referred to as a reference point or a reference slot. That is, in FIG. 12, the reference slot may be downlink slot n, which is a slot in which a PDCCH is received; in FIG. 13, the reference slot may be uplink slot n+3, which is an uplink slot overlapping with the last symbol in which a PDSCH is transmitted; and in FIG. 14, the reference slot may be uplink slot n, which is an uplink slot overlapping with the last symbol in which a PDCCH is transmitted.

[0151] In this specification, uplink slots and downlink slots may be referred to as slots without being separately distinguished. Hereinafter, it is assumed that the subcarrier spacing of the downlink BWP in which the PDSCH and PDCCH are transmitted is the same as the subcarrier spacing of the uplink BWP in which the PUSCH and PUCCH are transmitted.

[0152] The terminal may be configured by the base station to repeatedly receive the PDCCH in order to increase the reception reliability of the PDCCH. The reception reliability of the PDCCH may be based on a CCE aggregation level (AL) for the PDCCH. For example, the terminal may receive the PDCCH with a CCE aggregation level of 8 or 16 with higher reliability than the terminal may receive the PDCCH with a CCE aggregation level of 1 or 2. In this specification, reception reliability may refer to the probability that the terminal successfully receives the PDCCH.

[0153] The base station can configure the CCE aggregation level and the number of PDCCH candidates that the terminal monitors per CCE aggregation level using the control resource set and search space information for the terminal to receive the PDCCH. A terminal in a certain situation, for example, a terminal located at a cell edge, may require a high CCE aggregation level for PDCCH reception. However, the control resource set configured by the base station for the terminal may not provide the CCE aggregation level for PDCCH reception. For example, to support CCE aggregation level 16 for PDCCH reception, the control resource set of the terminal requires 16 CCEs, i.e., 96 resource element groups (REGs). In this case, if the control resource set is 2 symbols, the control resource set can include 96 REGs only if at least 48 RBs are allocated on the frequency domain resources. However, if the frequency domain bandwidth supported by the terminal is narrow or if the base station configures the terminal to use only a narrow bandwidth for channel reception, the control resource set may not support CCE aggregation level 16. In a situation where it is difficult to set a high CCE aggregation level, the base station can configure the terminal to repeatedly receive the PDCCH.

[0154] In this specification, PDCCH1A, PDCCH1B, etc. may refer to PDCCHs that a terminal monitors and receives by monitoring PDCCH#1A candidates, PDCCH#1B candidates, etc. Also, in this specification, (repeated) PDCCH candidates and (repeated) PDCCHs may be used interchangeably.

[0155] Hereinafter, a specific method for a base station to configure a terminal to repeatedly receive a PDCCH will be described with reference to FIGS.

[0156] FIG. 15 illustrates PDCCHs being repeatedly transmitted on different control resource sets according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0157] Referring to FIG. 15, a terminal may assume that PDCCHs transmitted on different control resource sets include the same DCI. Specifically, the terminal may monitor CORESET A in a first slot (slot n in FIG. 15) to receive PDCCH1A, and monitor CORESET B in a second slot (slot n+1 in FIG. 15) to receive PDCCH1B. In this case, the terminal may be pre-configured by the base station to assume that PDCCH1A and PDCCH1B are PDCCHs including the same DCI. The terminal may independently decode PDCCH1A and PDCCH1B to acquire DCI information. However, if DCI information is not acquired even after independently decoding PDCCH1A and PDCCH1B, the terminal may acquire DCI information by jointly decoding PDCCH1A and PDCCH1B. In addition to the above-described PDCCH1A and PDCCH1B, PDCCH1C can be received on CORESET C, and PDCCH1D can be received on CORESET D. Also, although FIG. 15 has been described as including the same DCI in PDCCHs of CORESETs in different slots (e.g., slot n and slot n+1), multiple CORESETs may be configured within one slot, and the terminal may receive PDCCHs on multiple CORESETs, respectively, and the received PDCCHs may include the same DCI. In other words, the first slot and the second slot may be separate slots or the same slot. In this case, PDCCHs including the same DCI may have the same CCE aggregation level.

[0158] FIG. 16 illustrates PDCCHs being repeatedly transmitted in different search spaces according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0159] Referring to FIG. 16, a base station can configure multiple search spaces for one CORESET (CORESET A in FIG. 16) for a terminal. That is, the CORESET is configured in the same resource region for each slot, but the search space for each slot may be configured in a separate time resource region. The terminal can assume that PDCCHs transmitted in multiple search spaces include the same DCI. Since one CORESET is the same resource region for each slot, the frequency domain and time domain length (number of symbols) in which the PDCCHs are transmitted are the same. The terminal can receive PDCCH1A by monitoring search space A of CORESET A in the first slot (slot n in FIG. 16), and can receive PDCCH1B by monitoring search space B of CORESET A in the second slot (slot n+1 in FIG. 16). The base station can pre-configure the terminal that the DCI included in PDCCH1A and PDCCH1B is the same. The terminal can acquire DCI information by independently decoding PDCCH1A and PDCCH1B. However, if DCI information is not obtained even after independently decoding PDCCH1A and PDCCH1B, DCI information can be obtained by jointly decoding PDCCH1A and PDCCH1B. Furthermore, in addition to PDCCH1A and PDCCH1B, the terminal can receive PDCCH1C in search space C and PDCCH1D in search space D. Furthermore, although FIG. 16 illustrates the case where the same DCI is included in PDCCHs transmitted in search spaces of different slots (e.g., slot n and slot n+1), multiple search spaces may be configured within one slot, and the terminal can receive PDCCHs in multiple search spaces, respectively, and the received PDCCHs may also include the same DCI. In other words, the first slot and the second slot may be different slots or the same slot. In this case, PDCCHs including the same DCI may have the same CCE aggregation level.

[0160] For convenience of explanation, in this specification, a PDCCH including the same DCI information may be referred to as a repeated PDCCH. A PDCCH that is transmitted only once may also be included in the repeated PDCCH. For example, in Figures 15 and 16, the PDCCH is a PDCCH that is repeated four times and may be configured as PDCCH1A, PDCCH1B, PDCCH1C, and PDCCH1B.

[0161] When configured by the base station to receive a repeated PDCCH, the terminal can receive the PDCCH by monitoring PDCCH candidates (e.g., PDCCH #1A candidate, PDCCH #1B candidate, PDCCH #1C candidate, and PDCCH #1D candidate in FIGS. 15 and 16) that contain the same DCI information and are configured to be repeatedly received, and determine whether the DCI included in the received PDCCH is correctly received. The terminal can determine whether one, multiple, or all of the repeated PDCCHs are successfully received. For example, when the PDCCH is configured to be repeatedly transmitted four times, the terminal can monitor only the PDCCH #1A candidate and successfully receive the DCI included in the corresponding PDCCH. In addition, the terminal can monitor the PDCCH #1B candidate and the PDCCH #1C candidate and successfully receive the DCI included in the corresponding PDCCH. In addition, the terminal can monitor PDCCH #1A candidate, PDCCH #1B candidate, PDCCH #1C candidate, and PDCCH #1D candidate to successfully receive DCI included in the corresponding PDCCH.

[0162] FIG. 17 illustrates that different repetitive PDCCHs overlap in the time-frequency domain according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0163] The base station may configure the terminal to monitor the first repeat PDCCH candidate on the first CORESET and search space and receive the first repeat PDCCH. Similarly, the base station may configure the terminal to monitor the second repeat PDCCH candidate, the third repeat PDCCH candidate, and the fourth repeat PDCCH candidate in the second CORESET and search space, the third CORESET and search space, and the fourth CORESET and search space, respectively, and receive the second repeat PDCCH, the third repeat PDCCH, and the fourth repeat PDCCH.

[0164] Referring to FIG. 17 , the terminal may receive the first repeat PDCCH by monitoring a repeat PDCCH #1 candidate (first repeat PDCCH candidate) on a first CORESET and search space. The first repeat PDCCH may be configured to be transmitted four times repeatedly. The PDCCH repeated four times may be a PDCCH transmitted on a PDCCH #1A candidate for slot n, a PDCCH #1B candidate for slot n+1, a PDCCH #1C candidate for slot n+2, and a PDCCH #1D candidate for slot n+3. The terminal may receive the second repeat PDCCH by monitoring a repeat PDCCH #2 candidate (second repeat PDCCH candidate) on a second CORESET and search space. The second repeat PDCCH may be configured to be transmitted twice repeatedly. The PDCCH repeated twice may be a PDCCH transmitted on a PDCCH #2A candidate for slot n+1 and a PDCCH #2B candidate for slot n+2. The UE may receive the third repeated PDCCH by monitoring a repeated PDCCH #3 candidate (third repeated PDCCH candidate) on the third CORESET and search space. The third repeated PDCCH may be configured to be received without repetition in slot n+2. In this case, the received PDCCH may include DCI in a DCI format having a CRC scrambled with C-RNTI, MCS-C-RNTI, CS-RNTI, SFI-RNTI, INT-RNTI, or CI-RNTI. In this case, the format of the received DCI may include DCI formats 0_0, 0_1, 0_2, 1_0, 1_1, 1_2, 2_0, 2_1, to 2_4.

[0165] Referring to FIG. 17, resources that a terminal monitors for PDCCHs transmitted on different CORESETs and search spaces configured by a base station may overlap. Specifically, the base station may configure the terminal to repeatedly monitor a repeat PDCCH #1 candidate (first repeat PDCCH candidate) in slots n, n+1, n+2, and n+3. The base station may configure the terminal to repeatedly monitor a repeat PDCCH #2 candidate (second repeat PDCCH candidate) in slots n+1 and n+2. That is, the terminal must monitor the repeat PDCCH #1 candidate and the repeat PDCCH #2 candidate in slots n+1 and n+2 and receive the corresponding PDCCHs. In this case, if the time-frequency resource regions of slots n+1 and n+2 in which PDCCH #1 is transmitted overlap with the resources in which PDCCH #2 is transmitted, the terminal cannot distinguish whether the PDCCH received in slots n+1 and n+2 is a repeat PDCCH #1 or a repeat PDCCH #2 through monitoring. Therefore, even if the UE successfully receives a repetition PDCCH, a problem may arise as to whether the received PDCCH should be determined as a repetition PDCCH #1 or a repetition PDCCH #2 when decoding DCI information included in the received repetition PDCCH. Furthermore, the base station may configure the UE to monitor a repetition PDCCH #3 candidate (third repetition PDCCH candidate) without repetition in slot n+2 and receive the corresponding PDCCH. In this case, the UE can monitor a repetition PDCCH #1 candidate, a repetition PDCCH #2 candidate, and a PDCCH #3 candidate in slot n+2 and receive the corresponding PDCCH. If the time-frequency resource regions of slot n+2 in which PDCCH #1, PDCCH #2, and PDCCH #3 are transmitted overlap, the UE cannot distinguish whether the PDCCH received in slot n+2 is a repetition PDCCH #1, a repetition PDCCH #2, or a PDCCH #3. Therefore, even if the terminal successfully receives a repeat PDCCH, when decoding the DCI information contained in the received repeat PDCCH, a problem may arise as to whether the received PDCCH should be determined as a repeat PDCCH #1, a repeat PDCCH #2, or a repeat PDCCH #3.The above-mentioned overlapping of time-frequency resource regions may include a case where resource regions in which PDCCHs are transmitted fully overlap, in other words, a case where CCEs in which each PDCCH is transmitted fully overlap.

[0166] Hereinafter, a case where a terminal cannot determine which repetitive PDCCH is due to the overlap of the time-frequency resource regions, ie, PDCCH ambiguity, will be described.

[0167] FIG. 18 illustrates a problem that occurs when determining a slot in which a physical downlink shared channel is scheduled, according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0168] FIG. 18 illustrates the problem with the K0 value described above. Referring to FIG. 18(a), if the DCI successfully received by the terminal is included in the first PDCCH repetition (set to be transmitted four times), the terminal may consider slot n+3, in which the last PDCCH repetition of the first PDCCH is transmitted, as a reference slot and apply the K0 value from the reference slot. That is, the terminal may determine that the PDSCH is scheduled to be transmitted in slot n+3+K0(n+3+3), i.e., slot n+6. Referring to FIG. 18(b), if the DCI successfully received by the terminal is included in the second PDCCH repetition (set to be transmitted two times), the terminal may consider slot n+2, in which the last PDCCH repetition of the second PDCCH is transmitted, as a reference slot and apply the K0 value from the reference slot. That is, the terminal may determine that the PDSCH is scheduled to be transmitted in slot n+5, which is slot n+2+K0(n+2+3). Therefore, different results may occur depending on which repeated PDCCH the UE regards as the repeated PDCCH including the successfully received DCI.

[0169] FIG. 19 illustrates a problem that occurs when determining slots in which the physical uplink shared channel and the physical uplink control channel are scheduled, according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0170] FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating the problems with the K1 and K2 values ​​described above.

[0171] First, the issue regarding the K1 value will be described with reference to Figure 19. The PUCCH in Figure 19 can include HARQ-ACK information for DCI instructing SPS PDSCH release. Referring to Figure 19(a), if the DCI successfully received by the terminal is included in the first PDCCH repetition (set to be transmitted four times), the terminal may consider slot n+3, in which the last PDCCH repetition of the first PDCCH is transmitted, as a reference slot and apply the K1 value from the reference slot. That is, the terminal may determine that the PUCCH is scheduled to be transmitted in slot n+5, which is slot n+3+K1(n+3+2). Referring to Figure 19(b), if the DCI successfully received by the terminal is included in the second PDCCH repetition (set to be transmitted two times), the terminal may consider slot n+2, in which the last PDCCH repetition of the second PDCCH is transmitted, as a reference slot and apply the K1 value from the reference slot. That is, the UE may determine that the PUCCH is scheduled to be transmitted in slot n+4, which is slot n+2+K2(n+2+2). Therefore, different results may occur depending on which repeated PDCCH the UE considers to be the repeated PDCCH including the successfully received DCI.

[0172] Next, the issue regarding the K2 value will be described with reference to Figure 19. Referring to Figure 19(a), if the DCI successfully received by the terminal is included in the first repeated PDCCH (set to be transmitted four times), the terminal may consider slot n+3, in which the last repeated PDCCH of the first PDCCH is transmitted, as a reference slot and apply the K2 value from the reference slot. That is, the terminal may determine that the PUSCH is scheduled to be transmitted in slot n+3+K2(n+3+2), i.e., slot n+5. Referring to Figure 19(b), if the DCI successfully received by the terminal is included in the second repeated PDCCH (set to be transmitted two times), the terminal may consider slot n+2, in which the last repeated PDCCH of the second PDCCH is transmitted, as a reference slot and apply the K2 value from the reference slot. That is, the terminal may determine that the PUSCH is scheduled to be transmitted in slot n+4, which is slot n+2+K2(n+2+2). Therefore, different results may occur depending on which repeated PDCCH the UE regards as the repeated PDCCH including the successfully received DCI.

[0173] FIG. 20 illustrates slots determined by a dynamic slot format indicator according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0174] FIG. 20 illustrates a problem that occurs when applying a slot indicated by a dynamic slot format indicator (SFI) and the symbol configuration (uplink, downlink, flexible) of the indicated slot.

[0175] The DCI of DCI format 2_0 included in the first repeated PDCCH transmitted by the base station may include a dynamic SFI. The terminal may determine slots and symbol configurations of the slots based on the dynamic SFI. In this case, the slots indicated by the dynamic SFI may be a specific number of slots starting from the last slot among the slots in which the repeated PDCCH is transmitted. In this case, the specific number may be configured by RRC. For example, referring to FIG. 20, the base station may configure the terminal to repeatedly receive the first repeated PDCCH in slot n, slot n+1, slot n+2, and slot n+3. The terminal may apply the symbol configuration indicated by the dynamic SFI to four slots starting from slot n+3, which is the last slot in which the first repeated PDCCH is transmitted. In Figure 20, it has been described that the slot configuration indicated by the dynamic SFI is applied from the last slot in which the first repeat PDCCH is transmitted, but the slot configuration indicated by the dynamic SFI may also be applied from the first slot in which the first repeat PDCCH is transmitted, or from the slots after the number of slots set by the upper layer after the first slot, or from the slots after the number of slots set by the upper layer after the last slot.

[0176] FIG. 21 illustrates a problem that occurs when slots are determined by a dynamic slot format indicator according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0177] Figure 21 illustrates a problem that occurs when a slot indicated by a dynamic SFI and a symbol configuration of the indicated slot are applied. Referring to Figure 21(a), if a DCI having DCI format 2_0 that is successfully received by a terminal is included in a first repeated PDCCH (set to be transmitted four times), the terminal can apply the symbol configuration indicated by the dynamic SFI from slot n+3, which is the last slot among the slots in which the first repeated PDCCH is transmitted. Referring to Figure 21(b), if a DCI having DCI format 2_0 that is successfully received by a terminal is included in a second repeated PDCCH (set to be transmitted two times), the terminal can apply the symbol configuration indicated by the dynamic SFI from slot n+2, which is the last slot among the slots in which the second repeated PDCCH is transmitted. Therefore, the slot to which the symbol configuration indicated by the dynamic SFI is applied may change depending on which repeated PDCCH the terminal considers the repeated PDCCH including the successfully received DCI to be.

[0178] FIG. 22 illustrates how slots are determined based on a downlink preemption indicator according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0179] FIG. 22 illustrates a problem related to resources in the time-frequency domain indicated by a downlink preemption indication.

[0180] The base station may transmit DCI, which is DCI format 2_1 including a downlink preemption indicator, to the terminal through the first repetition of the PDCCH. The terminal may determine a reference downlink resource to determine a time-frequency resource indicated by the downlink preemption indicator. The downlink preemption indicator may indicate some time-frequency resources among the reference downlink resources.

[0181] Hereinafter, with reference to Fig. 22, a method in which a terminal determines a reference downlink resource will be described. In this case, the transmission period of the first repeated PDCCH including a downlink preemption indicator may be 8 slots. For convenience of description, the first repeated transmission (transmission of the repeated PDCCH on slot n to slot n+3 in Fig. 22) is referred to as transmission in the first period, and the second repeated transmission (transmission of the repeated PDCCH on slots n+8 to n+11 in Fig. 22) is referred to as transmission in the second period. In other words, the first period may be slot n to slot n+3, and the second period may be slot n+8 to slot n+11.

[0182] 22(a), when the terminal receives the first repeated PDCCH including the downlink preemption indicator transmitted in the second cycle, the reference downlink resource of the downlink preemption indicator can include from immediately before the first symbol of the first repeated PDCCH of the first repeated PDCCH in the second cycle (i.e., slot n+7 immediately before the first symbol of slot n+8 in FIG. 22(a)) to the first symbol of the first repeated PDCCH of the first repeated PDCCH in the first cycle (the first symbol of slot n in FIG. 22(a)) (slot n to slot n+7 in FIG. 22(a)). In other words, the reference downlink resource of the downlink preemption indicator can include P slots or P*N slots immediately before the first symbol of the first repeated PDCCH of the first repeated PDCCH in the second cycle. slot symb P is the transmission period of the first PDCCH repetition, and P may be 8. slot symb means the number of symbols constituting a slot. According to Figure 22(a), the reference downlink resource is a resource that is a certain time interval away from the last slot in which the first repeated PDCCH is transmitted. This may cause a problem that the downlink preemption indicator cannot be transmitted quickly.

[0183] 22(b), when the terminal receives the first repeated PDCCH including the downlink preemption indicator transmitted in the second cycle, the reference downlink resource of the downlink preemption indicator can include from immediately before the first symbol of the last repeated PDCCH of the first repeated PDCCH in the second cycle (i.e., slot n+10 immediately before the first symbol of slot n+11 in FIG. 22(b)) to the first symbol of the last repeated PDCCH of the first repeated PDCCH in the first cycle (the first symbol of slot n+3 in FIG. 22(b)) (slot n+3 to slot n+10 in FIG. 22(b)). In other words, the reference downlink resource of the downlink preemption indicator can include P slots or P*N immediately before the first symbol of the last repeated PDCCH of the first repeated PDCCH in the second cycle. slot symb P is the transmission period of the first PDCCH repetition, and P may be 8. slot symb means the number of symbols constituting a slot. Referring to Figures 22(a) and 22(b), the reference downlink resource includes slots or symbols in which the terminal receives the repetitive PDCCH (i.e., slot n to slot n+3 in Figure 22(a) and slot n+3 and slot n+8 to slot n+10 in Figure 22(b)). If the terminal cannot simultaneously receive the PDCCH and the PDSCH in one symbol, it does not need to include the slot or symbol in which the repetitive PDCCH is transmitted in the reference downlink resource.

[0184] Referring to FIG. 22(c), when the UE receives the first repeated PDCCH including the downlink preemption indicator transmitted in the second period, the reference downlink resource of the downlink preemption indicator is Q slots or Q*N slots immediately before the first symbol of the first repeated PDCCH among the first repeated PDCCHs in the second period. slot symbIt can include symbols or Q symbols. Q may be the difference between the transmission period of the repeated PDCCH including the downlink preemption indicator and the slots in which the PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted, or a value set by the base station from a higher layer. Referring to FIG. 22(c), the transmission period of the repeated PDCCH is 8 slots and the number of slots in which the PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted is 4, so Q may be 4 (8-4). N slot symb means the number of symbols included in a slot. According to Figure 22(c), the case where the reference downlink resource includes a slot or symbol for which repeated PDCCH transmission is configured as shown in Figures 22(a) and 22(b) may be excluded.

[0185] FIG. 23 illustrates a problem that occurs when a slot is determined by a downlink preemption indicator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0186] Hereinafter, a problem that occurs when a UE determines a resource in the time-frequency domain indicated by a downlink preemption indicator will be described with reference to Figure 23. For convenience of explanation, it is assumed that the reference downlink resource is determined as described in Figure 22(a).

[0187] Referring to FIG. 23(a), a first repeat PDCCH including DCI of DCI format 2_1 to be transmitted by a base station to a terminal may be configured to be repeated four times. In this case, as described in FIG. 22(a), the reference downlink resource may include symbols of slot n to slot n+7. In FIG. 23(b), a second repeat PDCCH including DCI of DCI format 2_1 to be transmitted by a base station to a terminal may be configured to be repeated twice. In this case, the terminal may determine the reference downlink resource based on slot n+9, in which the second repeat reception of the second repeat PDCCH is configured. The number of slots or symbols included in the reference downlink resource may be determined based on the transmission period of the second repeat PDCCH. That is, the reference downlink resource may include symbols of slot n+1 to slot n+8 (see FIG. 22(a)). Therefore, a problem may occur in which different reference downlink resources are determined depending on which repeat PDCCH the terminal considers a repeat PDCCH including DCI that has been successfully received.

[0188] FIG. 24 illustrates slots determined by an uplink revocation indicator according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0189] 24, the first repeated PDCCH transmitted from the base station to the terminal may include DCI of DCI format 2_4 including an UL cancellation indication. The terminal may determine a reference uplink resource to determine a time-frequency resource indicated by the uplink cancellation indication. The uplink cancellation indication may indicate some time-frequency resources among the reference uplink resources.

[0190] Referring to FIG. 24, the reference uplink resource may be determined based on the last symbol of the last PDCCH (slot n+3 in FIG. 24) in the first repetition transmission of the first repetition PDCCH including the uplink cancellation indicator. Specifically, the reference uplink resource may include Y symbols after Tproc+X symbols from the last symbol. Here, Tproc is a value determined based on processing time, and X may be a value set by a higher layer. Y may be a value set by a higher layer or determined based on the transmission period of the first repetition PDCCH. Referring to FIG. 24, Tproc=2, X=1, and Y=4, and the values ​​of Tproc, X, and Y may be in units of symbols.

[0191] FIG. 25 illustrates the problem that occurs when determining slots according to uplink cancellation indicators.

[0192] FIG. 25 illustrates a problem that occurs when a terminal interprets resources in the time-frequency domain indicated by an uplink revocation indicator.

[0193] Referring to FIG. 25(a), the reference uplink resource may be determined as described in FIG. 24 (slot n+7 to slot n+10). That is, the last symbol of the last PDCCH in which the first repetition transmission of the first repetition PDCCH is configured is the symbol of slot n+3. Therefore, the reference uplink resource may be determined to be the Y symbol after Tproc+X symbols from the last symbol of slot n+3. Referring to FIG. 25(b), the second repetition PDCCH transmitted by the base station to the terminal may include DCI of DCI format 2_4 including an uplink cancellation indication. In this case, the second repetition PDCCH may be configured to be repeated twice. The terminal may determine the reference uplink resource based on the last symbol of the last repetition PDCCH in the first repetition interval region in which the second repetition PDCCH is configured to be transmitted. That is, the last symbol of the last repetition PDCCH in the first repetition interval region of the second repetition PDCCH is the symbol of slot n+2. Therefore, the UE can determine Y symbols after T+X symbols from the last symbol of slot n+2 as the reference uplink resource. Therefore, a problem may occur in that different reference uplink resources are determined depending on which repeated PDCCH the UE considers to be a repeated PDCCH including a successfully received DCI.

[0194] A method for resolving the above-mentioned PDCCH ambiguity will be described below. That is, a method for determining which of a plurality of different repeated PDCCHs the DCI received by the terminal is included in will be described. Also, the terminal can determine which repeated PDCCH the received DCI is included in and transmit a corresponding HARQ-ACK to the base station. That is, the terminal can transmit a HARQ-ACK for the PDCCH determined by a method to be described later to the base station. In this case, the HARQ-ACK transmitted by the terminal to the base station may be the above-mentioned first type HARQ-ACK and / or second type HARQ-ACK.

[0195] i) First method

[0196] In order to distinguish different repeated PDCCHs, the base station may additionally transmit information for distinguishing different repeated PDCCHs required for DCI. When the terminal successfully receives a repeated PDCCH, the terminal may determine which repeated PDCCH has been successfully received based on the additional information included in the DCI. In this case, the information for distinguishing different repeated PDCCHs may include at least one of the following:

[0197] The DCI may include, as the first information, information regarding the number of times the repeated PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted, that is, the DCI may include a value for the number of times the repeated PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted.

[0198] For example, if the number of repetitions of a repeated PDCCH transmitted by a base station to a terminal is four, the DCI may include information (value) indicating the number of repetitions (four) or information (value) from which the number of repetitions can be inferred.

[0199] As another example, if the first repeat PDCCH received by the UE is configured to be transmitted four times and the second repeat PDCCH is configured to be transmitted two times, the first repeat PDCCH and the second repeat PDCCH may completely overlap in resources in the time-frequency domain of one slot. In this case, the DCI may include an indicator for distinguishing the first repeat PDCCH from the second repeat PDCCH. If there are L types of repeat PDCCHs, the DCI may indicate the type of repeat PDCCH using ceil(log2(L)) bits. ceil(x) is a function indicating the smallest integer not smaller than x. Specifically, if there are two types of repeat PDCCHs, the first repeat PDCCH and the second repeat PDCCH, the information for distinguishing the repeat PDCCHs included in the DCI may be an indicator of ceil(log2(2)) bits (i.e., 1 bit). A value of '0' of the 1-bit indicator indicates a second repeated PDCCH that is transmitted twice, and a value of '1' indicates a first repeated PDCCH that is transmitted four times. In general, the UE can determine the number of repeated PDCCHs in which resources in the time-frequency domain completely overlap in any one slot. If the number of overlapping repeated PDCCHs is X, the required information may be represented by a ceil(log2(X))-bit size. Each code point of the ceil(log2(X)) bits may indicate the number of repetitions of the overlapping repeated PDCCHs. For example, the lowest code point value may indicate the number of repetitions of the PDCCH with the lowest number of repetitions among the repeated PDCCHs configured for the UE. In this case, the code point values ​​may indicate the number of repetitions of the repeated PDCCHs in ascending order.

[0200] The second information included in the DCI may be information (value) indicating the ID of a CORESET corresponding to the repeated PDCCH. For example, when the first repeated PDCCH is transmitted on the first CORESET and the second repeated PDCCH is transmitted on the second CORESET, the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH may completely overlap in the time-frequency resource region of one slot. In this case, the DCI may include an indicator for distinguishing between the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH. Specifically, when there are two types of repeated PDCCHs, the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH, the DCI may include a 1-bit indicator for distinguishing between the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH. A value of '0' of the 1-bit indicator may indicate the first repeated PDCCH transmitted on the first CORESET, and a value of '1' may indicate the second repeated PDCCH transmitted on the second CORESET. In general, the UE can determine the number of CORESETs corresponding to repeated PDCCHs in which time-frequency domain resources in any one slot completely overlap. If the number of overlapping repeated PDCCHs is X, the information included in the DCI may have a size of ceil(log2(X)) bits. Each code point indicated by ceil(log2(X)) bits may indicate a CORESET ID corresponding to the overlapping repeated PDCCHs. For example, the lowest code point value may indicate the lowest CORESET ID among the CORESET IDs corresponding to the overlapping repeated PDCCHs. The code point values ​​may indicate the CORESET IDs in ascending order. The CORESET ID is a value set by a higher layer, and the base station may transmit CORESET information including the CORESET ID to the UE.

[0201] The third information included in the DCI may be information (value) indicating a search space ID corresponding to a repeated PDCCH. For example, when a first repeated PDCCH is transmitted in a first search space and a second repeated PDCCH is transmitted in a second search space, the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH may completely overlap in the time-frequency resource region of one slot. In this case, the DCI may include an indicator for distinguishing between the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH. When there are two types of repeated PDCCHs, the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH, the DCI may include a 1-bit indicator for distinguishing between the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH. Specifically, if the value indicated by the 1-bit indicator is '0', it indicates the first repeated PDCCH corresponding to the first search space, and if the value of the indicator is '1', it indicates the second repeated PDCCH corresponding to the second search space. In general, the UE can determine the number of search spaces corresponding to repeated PDCCHs in which time-frequency domain resources in any one slot completely overlap. If the number of search spaces corresponding to overlapping repeated PDCCHs is X, the information included in the DCI may have a size of ceil(log2(X)) bits. Each code point indicated by the ceil(log2(X)) bits may indicate a search space ID corresponding to the overlapping repeated PDCCH. For example, the lowest code point value may indicate the lowest search space ID among the search space IDs corresponding to the overlapping repeated PDCCHs. The code point values ​​may indicate the search space IDs in ascending order. The search space ID is a value set by a higher layer, and the base station may transmit search space information including the search space ID to the UE.

[0202] The fourth information included in the DCI may be information (value) indicating a repeat PDCCH ID corresponding to a repeat PDCCH. For example, when the first repeat PDCCH has a first repeat PDCCH ID and the second repeat PDCCH has a second repeat PDCCH ID, the first repeat PDCCH and the second repeat PDCCH may completely overlap in the time-frequency resource region of any one slot. In this case, the DCI may include an indicator for distinguishing between the first repeat PDCCH and the second repeat PDCCH. When there are two types of repeat PDCCHs, the first repeat PDCCH and the second repeat PDCCH, the DCI may include a 1-bit indicator for distinguishing between the first repeat PDCCH and the second repeat PDCCH. Specifically, if the value indicated by the 1-bit indicator is '0', it indicates the first repeat PDCCH having the first repeat PDCCH ID, and if the value of the indicator is '1', it indicates the second repeat PDCCH having the second repeat PDCCH ID. In general, the UE may determine the number of repeated PDCCH IDs corresponding to repeated PDCCHs in which time-frequency domain resources in any one slot completely overlap. If the number of repeated PDCCH IDs corresponding to overlapping repeated PDCCHs is X, the information included in the DCI may have a size of ceil(log2(X)) bits. Each code point of ceil(log2(X)) bits may indicate a repeated PDCCH ID corresponding to an overlapping repeated PDCCH. The lowest code point value may indicate a repeated PDCCH ID among the IDs of overlapping repeated PDCCHs. The code point values ​​may indicate the repeated PDCCH IDs in ascending order. The repeated PDCCH IDs may be values ​​configured by a higher layer. For example, the number of repeated PDCCH candidates monitored by the UE per aggregation level and CCE aggregation level may be configured based on search space information transmitted by the base station to the UE. In addition, a unique repeated PDCCH ID may be configured for each repeated PDCCH candidate monitored by the UE. The repeated PDCCH ID may be a value that the terminal obtains based on CORESET information and / or search space information received from the base station.For example, the CCE aggregation level and the number of repeated PDCCH candidates monitored by the terminal per CCE aggregation level may be configured based on search space information, with a lower CCE aggregation level being mapped to the lowest repeated PDCCH ID, and the CCE aggregation level and the repeated PDCCH ID may be mapped sequentially. If the base station configures the terminal to monitor multiple repeated PDCCH candidates of the same CCE aggregation level, the repeated PDCCH ID may be determined based on at least one value of a CCE index, a REG index, or a PRB index to which the repeated PDCCH is mapped. The repeated PDCCH ID corresponds to at least one value of a CCE index, a REG index, or a PRB index to which the PDCCH is mapped, and may be mapped in an ascending order. The repeated PDCCH ID corresponds to a search space ID and may be mapped in an ascending order. Furthermore, the repeated PDCCH ID corresponds to a CORESET ID and may be mapped in an ascending order.

[0203] The fifth information included in the DCI may be information (value) indicating the index of a slot or symbol at which transmission of the repeated PDCCH starts. For example, the first repeated PDCCH may start being transmitted from slot n, and the second repeated PDCCH may start being transmitted from slot n+1. Since the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH start being transmitted in different slots, the fifth information may be the index of a slot at which transmission of the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH starts. The first repeated PDCCH may be transmitted from symbol m of a specific slot, and the second repeated PDCCH may be transmitted from symbol m+1 of a specific slot. Since the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH start being transmitted from different symbols, the fifth information may be the index of a symbol at which transmission of the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH starts.

[0204] The sixth information included in the DCI may be information (value) indicating the index of a slot or symbol at which transmission of the repeated PDCCH ends. For example, transmission of the first repeated PDCCH may start from slot n and end at slot n+3, and transmission of the second repeated PDCCH may start from slot n+1 and end at slot n+2. Since transmission of the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH ends at different slots, the sixth information may be the index of a slot at which transmission of the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH ends. Transmission of the first repeated PDCCH may start from symbol m of a specific slot and end at symbol m+3 of the specific slot, and transmission of the second repeated PDCCH may start from symbol m+1 of a specific slot and end at symbol m+2 of the specific slot. Since transmission of the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH ends at different symbols, the sixth information may be the index of a symbol at which transmission of the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH ends.

[0205] The bit size indicating the fifth information and the sixth information may be restricted, and thus, the slot or symbol index indicated by the fifth information and the sixth information may be information (value) after modular arithmetic. For example, if the restricted bit size is N bits, the DCI may include a remainder (slot index mod 2^N) obtained by dividing the slot index by 2^N. N may be determined as follows. In a situation where different repeated PDCCHs must be distinguished from each other, the UE may determine the number of slots at which different repeated PDCCHs start transmitting. For example, if the first repeated PDCCH starts transmitting from slot n and the second repeated PDCCH starts transmitting from slot n+1, and the first repeated PDCCH and the second repeated PDCCH completely overlap in the time-frequency domain resources of any one slot, the UE may determine the number of slots (X) at which the repeated PDCCHs start as 2. In this case, N may be calculated as N=ceil(log2(X)).

[0206] A plurality of different repeat PDCCHs may have overlapping slots due to their monitoring periodicity and offset. In this case, adding another field to the DCI to solve the problem of overlapping slots may lead to an increase in overhead. As described above, since the repeat PDCCH is used when the radio channel condition is poor, such as in a cell edge UE, increasing the overhead of the DCI is inefficient. Therefore, a method for solving this problem will be described below.

[0207] ii) Second method

[0208] The second method is a method of reinterpreting one or more fields included in existing DCI to obtain information for distinguishing overlapping repeat PDCCHs. When a successfully received repeat PDCCH needs to distinguish between different repeat PDCCHs, the UE can distinguish the repeat PDCCHs by reinterpreting one or more fields of DCI included in the successfully received PDCCH.

[0209] The field used for reinterpretation may be a redundancy version (RV) field. That is, the UE can obtain information necessary to distinguish one of different repeated PDCCHs from the RV field of the DCI. Specifically, the UE can distinguish different repeated PDCCHs by assuming the value of the RV field to be a specific value (e.g., 0).

[0210] The field used for reinterpretation may be a field carrying a TPC command. That is, the UE can obtain information necessary to distinguish one of different repeated PDCCHs from the field carrying the TPC command. Specifically, the UE can distinguish different repeated PDCCHs by assuming the value of the TPC command field to be a specific value (e.g., 0 dB).

[0211] The field used for reinterpretation may be a downlink assignment index (DAI) field. That is, the UE can obtain information necessary to distinguish one of different repeated PDCCHs from the DAI field. Specifically, the UE can distinguish different repeated PDCCHs by assuming a specific DAI value. For example, the UE may not know the DAI value and therefore may assume the DAI value to be the lowest or highest value. Furthermore, the UE may not know the DAI value and therefore may not need to perform HARQ-ACK multiplexing based on the DAI.

[0212] It is apparent that other fields than the above-mentioned fields may be used to distinguish different repeat PDCCHs. In this case, the field for distinguishing different repeat PDCCHs may be configured from a higher layer. Also, only some bits of the field may be used for reinterpretation, and the remaining bits may be used for existing purposes. In this case, some bits may be MSBs (most significant bits).

[0213] iii) Third method

[0214] The third method is a method of distinguishing between different repeated PDCCHs by CRC, rather than adding another field to the DCI or reinterpreting an existing DCI field as in the first and second methods. That is, information for distinguishing between different repeated PDCCHs may be transmitted to the UE by DCI scrambled with different CRC values. Specifically, the DCI may be scrambled using a specific RNTI value as a CRC depending on the application. The UE can determine whether it has successfully received the DCI based on the RNTI value corresponding to the CRC value of the DCI. Therefore, the base station can generate a separate RNTI (hereinafter, a first RNTI) based on the information for distinguishing between different repeated PDCCHs and the RNTI value, and use the first RNTI as the CRC of the DCI. The UE can compare the CRC value of the received DCI with the first RNTI value to determine whether it has successfully received the DCI, and thereby obtain information for distinguishing between different repeated PDCCHs. For example, if the information for distinguishing different repeated PDCCHs has an X-bit size, the base station may generate a first RNTI value by performing an exclusive OR (XOR) operation on X bits of the RNTI. In this case, the X bits of the RNTI may be the most significant bits (MSBs) or least significant bits (LSBs) of the RNTI. In addition, the UE may calculate usable first RNTI values. If the information for distinguishing different repeated PDCCHs has an X-bit size, the number of usable combinations for the first RNTI is 0 to 2^X-1, i.e., 2^X. The UE may compare the CRC of the received DCI with the 2^X first RNTI values ​​to determine a matching first RNTI value. If a matching first RNTI value is found, the UE may confirm that information corresponding to the first RNTI value, i.e., information for distinguishing different repeated PDCCHs, is included in the DCI.

[0215] iv) Fourth method

[0216] A fourth method is to previously configure a terminal with a specific value as information for distinguishing different repeated PDCCHs. Specifically, the specific value may be the lowest or highest value configured in the terminal among values ​​that the information for distinguishing different repeated PDCCHs may indicate.

[0217] The information for distinguishing different repetition PDCCHs may be a value corresponding to the number of times the repetition PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted. Therefore, when the specific value set in the terminal is the lowest, it can be assumed that the terminal has received a repetition PDCCH with the lowest number of repetitions among the repetitions of different repetition PDCCHs. When the specific value set in the terminal is the highest, it can be assumed that the terminal has received a repetition PDCCH with the highest number of repetitions among the repetitions of different repetition PDCCHs.

[0218] The information for distinguishing different repeated PDCCHs may be a CORESET ID corresponding to the repeated PDCCH. Therefore, if the specific value set in the terminal is the lowest value, the terminal may assume that the repeated PDCCH has been received on a CORESET with the lowest ID among the CORESETs corresponding to different repeated PDCCHs. If the specific value set in the terminal is the highest value, the terminal may assume that the repeated PDCCH has been received on a CORESET with the highest ID among the CORESETs corresponding to different repeated PDCCHs.

[0219] The information for distinguishing different repeated PDCCHs may be a search space ID corresponding to the repeated PDCCH. Therefore, if the specific value set in the terminal is the lowest, the terminal may assume that the repeated PDCCH has been received in a search space with the lowest ID among the search space IDs corresponding to different repeated PDCCHs. If the specific value set in the terminal is the highest, the terminal may assume that the repeated PDCCH has been received in a search space with the highest ID among the search space IDs corresponding to different repeated PDCCHs.

[0220] The information for distinguishing different repeated PDCCHs may be a repeated PDCCH ID corresponding to the repeated PDCCH. Therefore, if the specific value set in the terminal is the lowest, it can be assumed that the terminal has received a repeated PDCCH with the lowest ID among the repeated PDCCH IDs corresponding to different repeated PDCCHs. If the specific value set in the terminal is the highest, it can be assumed that the terminal has received a repeated PDCCH with the highest ID among the repeated PDCCH IDs corresponding to different repeated PDCCHs.

[0221] v) Fifth method

[0222] The fifth method is a method in which the UE distinguishes different repeat PDCCHs using search space types. Specifically, the first repeat PDCCH corresponds to a first search space of a first type, and the second repeat PDCCH corresponds to a second search space of a second type, and the first and second types may be different. In this case, the UE may determine that the repeat PDCCH has been received on either the first search type space or the second search space. The UE may determine which search space is the following: If the first search space type is a cell-common search space and the second search space type is a specific UE search space, the UE may determine that the repeat PDCCH has been received on the first search space of the cell-common search space type.

[0223] The repeat PDCCH transmitted on the cell common search space may include system information and paging information and may schedule a PDSCH, a PUCCH, and a PUSCH. The repeat PDCCH transmitted on the cell common search space may also include a dynamic SFI, a downlink preemption indicator, and an uplink cancellation indicator, which may be transmitted to a specific terminal or a specific terminal group. Therefore, the repeat PDCCH transmitted on the cell common search space may be prioritized over the repeat PDCCH transmitted on a specific terminal search space. Furthermore, since the repeat PDCCH transmitted on the cell common search space can be received by multiple terminals in a cell, different operations may be performed for each of the multiple terminals when multiple terminals interpret DCI assuming that the received repeat PDCCH is a terminal-specific search space. Therefore, to prevent multiple terminals from performing different operations, the repeat PDCCH transmitted on the cell common search space may be prioritized.

[0224] The above-mentioned first to fifth methods indicate methods for determining which of different repetition PDCCHs the DCI received by the terminal is included in. Hereinafter, a method for resolving PDCCH ambiguity will be described, in which the terminal does not determine which repetition PDCCH the DCI received by the terminal is included in, and the terminal does not determine whether the correctly received DCI is transmitted on the repetition PDCCH. Specifically, a method will be described in which the time points (i.e., reference slots) for applying the K0, K1, and K2 values ​​described above with reference to Figures 18 to 20 are explicitly or implicitly determined.

[0225] vi) Sixth method

[0226] The sixth method is a method in which a base station indicates, using DCI, the index of a slot or symbol to which the K0, K1, and K2 values ​​are applied. For example, if the index of a slot or symbol to which the K0, K1, and K2 values ​​are applied is n, the base station may include information about n in the DCI and transmit the DCI to a terminal. If the information about the index of a slot or symbol to which the K0, K1, and K2 values ​​are applied has a size of N bits, the information about n may be included in the DCI as a value obtained by performing modular arithmetic. Specifically, the information about n may be included in the DCI as the remainder (n mod 2^N) of dividing the index n by 2^N.

[0227] The method by which the UE determines the index of the reference slot or symbol to which the K0, K1, and K2 values ​​are applied based on the information included in the DCI is as follows. The repeated PDCCH successfully received by the UE may be configured to be transmitted in slot a, slot a+1, ..., slot a+b-1. Here, a is a non-negative integer, and b is an integer greater than 0. The UE may assume that the PDSCH, PUCCH, and PUSCH cannot be scheduled before the time when the last part of the repeated PDCCH is received. That is, the UE may assume that the PDSCH, PUCCH, and PUSCH are not scheduled before slot a+b-1, which is the last slot among the slots configured to transmit the repeated PDCCH. Therefore, the UE may assume that the time (reference slot) to apply the K0, K1, and K2 values ​​is not the slot before slot a+b-1.

[0228] The DCI transmitted from the base station to the terminal may include a specific value, which allows the terminal to determine a time point that can be a reference slot. For example, if the specific value is c, the terminal may determine slot n+0*2^N+c, slot n+1*2^N+c, slot n+2*2^N+c, ..., slot n+i*2^N+c as reference slot candidates to which the K0, K1, and K2 values ​​can be applied. Here, c may be one of 0, 1, ..., and 2^N-1. Here, N may be the bit size of information indicating the specific value c. A method for selecting one of multiple reference slot candidates is as follows. As described above, slots prior to slot a+b-1 cannot be reference slots. Therefore, the terminal may determine any one of the slots after slot a+b-1 as the reference slot. For example, the terminal may determine the first slot of the slots after slot a+b-1 as the reference slot.

[0229] Hereinafter, a method for determining a reference slot will be specifically described with reference to FIG.

[0230] FIG. 26 shows a method for determining a reference slot according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0231] Referring to FIG. 26(a), N is 2 bits, and the UE is instructed by the DCI as a specific value c, where the value of c may be 0. Therefore, the UE can determine slot n, slot n+4, slot n+8, etc. as possible slot candidates as reference slots. In this case, since the UE has received DCI included in the repeated PDCCH transmitted on slot n+1 and slot n+2, it can determine slot n+4, which is the first slot of the slot candidates after slot n+1 and slot n+2, as the reference slot. Then, the UE can apply values ​​K0, K1, and K2 based on the determined reference slot.

[0232] Referring to FIG. 26(b), N is 3 bits, and the UE is instructed by the DCI as a specific value c, which may be 0. Therefore, the UE can determine slot n, slot n+8, slot n+16, ... as possible slot candidates as the reference slot. In this case, since the UE has received DCI included in the repeated PDCCH transmitted on slot n+1 and slot n+2, it can determine slot n+8, which is the first slot of the slot candidates after slot n+1 and slot n+2, as the reference slot. Then, the UE can apply values ​​K0, K1, and K2 based on the determined reference slot.

[0233] The UE determines reference slot candidates based on a specific value included in the DCI. However, including information about the specific value in the DCI results in a problem of large overhead. To solve this problem, the DCI does not need to include information about a separate specific value. For example, the UE can determine slot 0*M+c, slot 1*M+c, slot 2*M+c, ..., slot i*M+c, ... as reference slot candidates. In this case, M and c, which are values ​​set by an upper layer, may be non-negative integer values, and in particular, c may be 0.

[0234] vii) Seventh method

[0235] When the UE needs to determine whether the successfully received repeat PDCCH is the first repeat PDCCH or the second repeat PDCCH, the UE may determine the last slot of the repeat PDCCH that ends later as a reference slot to which the K0, K1, and K2 values ​​can be applied. The UE may determine the slot set to transmit the last PDCCH among the repeat PDCCHs that overlap in the time-frequency resource region as the reference slot. In this case, since the repeat PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted according to a transmission cycle, the last PDCCH may refer to the last PDCCH among the repeat PDCCHs within one cycle. This will be described in detail below with reference to FIG. 27.

[0236] FIG. 27 shows a method for determining a reference slot according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0237] Referring to FIG. 27, the UE can determine the last slot in which the first repeat PDCCH and the second repeat PDCCH are transmitted from CORESET information and search space information configured by the base station. The first repeat PDCCH may be configured to be transmitted in slot n, slot n+1, slot n+2, and slot n+3 within one period. The second repeat PDCCH may be configured to be transmitted in slot n+1 and slot n+2 within one period. The UE can determine the later ending slot of the slot in which the first repeat PDCCH and the second repeat PDCCH are transmitted as the reference slot. For example, the first repeat PDCCH is transmitted last in slot n+3 within one period, and the second repeat PDCCH is transmitted last in slot n+2 within one period. Therefore, the UE can determine the reference slot based on slot n+3.

[0238] The above-described sixth and seventh methods are applicable to the PDCCH ambiguity described in Figures 20 to 25. For example, when determining a slot to which a dynamic SFI is applied or determining a reference uplink resource, the UE needs information on the location of the slot or symbol in which the last PDCCH of the repeated PDCCHs including successfully received DCI is transmitted. In this case, the location of the slot or symbol in which the last PDCCH is transmitted may be determined using a method similar to the above-described sixth or seventh method.

[0239] Specifically, according to the sixth method, the terminal can determine a candidate slot or symbol set having a regular period. Such a candidate slot or symbol set may be indicated by DCI or determined by a higher layer. The terminal can determine one slot or symbol from the candidate slot or symbol set having a regular period based on the last slot or symbol in which the repeated PDCCH is transmitted. For example, the terminal can select the first candidate slot or symbol from the candidate slot or symbol set including the last slot or symbol in which the repeated PDCCH is transmitted. For example, the terminal can select the first slot or symbol from the candidate slot or symbol set including the last slot or symbol in which the repeated PDCCH is transmitted. The terminal can determine a slot or reference uplink resource to which the dynamic SFI is applied from the selected slot or symbol.

[0240] According to the seventh method, the UE may obtain an index of the last slot or symbol in which the first PDCCH repeat is transmitted and an index of the last slot or symbol in which the second PDCCH repeat is transmitted. The slot or reference uplink resource to which the dynamic SFI is applied may be determined based on the later slot / symbol among the last slot / symbol in which the first PDCCH repeat is transmitted and the last slot / symbol in which the second PDCCH repeat is transmitted. As yet another example, the slot or reference uplink resource to which the dynamic SFI is applied may be determined based on the earliest slot / symbol among the last slot / symbol in which the first PDCCH repeat is transmitted and the last slot / symbol in which the second PDCCH repeat is transmitted.

[0241] To determine the reference downlink resource, the terminal needs information on the position of a slot or symbol in which the first PDCCH of the repeated PDCCH including the successfully received DCI is transmitted. In this case, the position of the slot or symbol in which the first PDCCH is transmitted may be determined by a method similar to the sixth or seventh method described above.

[0242] Specifically, similar to the sixth method, the terminal can determine a candidate slot or symbol set having a constant period. The candidate slot and symbol set may be indicated by DCI or determined from a higher layer. The terminal can select one slot or set from the candidate slot or symbol set based on the first slot or symbol in which the repetitive PDCCH is transmitted. For example, the terminal can select the last slot or symbol from the candidate slot or symbol set including the first slot or symbol in which the repetitive PDCCH is transmitted. Alternatively, the terminal can select a slot or symbol from the candidate slot or symbol set that is before the first slot or symbol in which the repetitive PDCCH is transmitted. The terminal can determine a reference downlink resource based on the selected slot or symbol.

[0243] Similar to the seventh method, the UE may determine the index of the first slot or symbol in which the first PDCCH repeat is transmitted and the index of the first slot or symbol in which the second PDCCH repeat is transmitted. In this case, the reference downlink resource may be determined based on the first slot / symbol among the first slot / symbol in which the first PDCCH repeat is transmitted and the first slot / symbol in which the second PDCCH repeat is transmitted. As another example, the reference downlink resource may be determined based on the last slot / symbol among the first slot / symbol in which the first PDCCH repeat is transmitted and the first slot / symbol in which the second PDCCH repeat is transmitted.

[0244] viii) Eighth method

[0245] The eighth method is a method of transmitting information regarding repeated transmission of a repetitive PDCCH via a specific PDCCH for which a repetitive PDCCH is configured.

[0246] When a terminal is configured to receive a repeated PDCCH from a base station, the terminal can monitor and receive a specific PDCCH and explicitly receive information regarding repeated transmission of the repeated PDCCH. In this case, the information regarding repeated transmission of the PDCCH can include the first slot (or symbol) from which transmission of the repeated PDCCH starts and the number of slots (or symbols) to be repeatedly transmitted.

[0247] DCI included in a specific PDCCH may explicitly include information regarding repeated transmission of the repetitive PDCCH. In this case, the specific PDCCH may be referred to as an activation PDCCH, and for convenience of explanation, is referred to as a first activation PDCCH in this specification.

[0248] DCI included in the first PDCCH from which the transmission of the repetitive PDCCH starts may explicitly include information about the repetitive transmission of the repetitive PDCCH. In this case, the first PDCCH may be referred to as an activation PDCCH, and for convenience of explanation, is referred to as a second activation PDCCH in this specification.

[0249] DCI included in the initial PDCCH from which the transmission of the repeated PDCCH starts and a specific number of repeated PDCCHs may explicitly include information regarding repeated transmission of the repeated PDCCH. In this case, the initial PDCCH and the specific number of repeated PDCCHs may be referred to as activation repeated PDCCHs. The initial PDCCH and the specific number of repeated PDCCHs may be consecutive repeated PDCCHs.

[0250] The UE may reinterpret existing fields constituting the DCI to obtain information regarding repeated transmission of the aforementioned repeated PDCCH. In this case, the DCI may schedule a PDSCH, a PUCCH, or a PUSCH. The existing fields may include a TDRA field. For example, the SLIV value indicated by the TDRA field may be reinterpreted. By reinterpreting the SLIV value, the UE may obtain resource information for the first active PDCCH, the second active PDCCH, and the repeated PDCCH that is repeatedly transmitted after the active repeated PDCCH.

[0251] Specifically, the TDRA field of DCI included in the first active PDCCH, the second active PDCCH, and the repeated PDCCH repeatedly transmitted after the active repeated PDCCH may include an SLIV value for scheduling the PDSCH, PUCCH, and PUSCH. That is, the UE may obtain resource information for the repeated PDCCH and resource information for the PDSCH, PUCCH, and PUSCH based on the TDRA field of DCI included in the first active PDCCH, the second active PDCCH, and the repeated PDCCH repeatedly transmitted after the active repeated PDCCH. The TDRA field described in this specification is as shown in Table 4.

[0252] [Table 4]

[0253] FIG. 28 illustrates reception of an active PDCCH and a repetitive PDCCH according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0254] 28, when a terminal receives an active PDCCH #1 in slot n, the terminal can expect PDSCH, PUCCH, and PUSCH transmission in slot n+5. The terminal can also expect repeated transmission of the repeated PDCCH from slot n+1 to slot n+3. A terminal that receives PDCCH #1A in slot n+1, PDCCH #1B in slot n+2, and PDCCH #1C in slot n+3 can obtain SLIV values ​​for the PDSCH, PUCCH, and PUSCH that are expected to be transmitted in slot n+5.

[0255] When the search spaces for other types of terminals completely overlap on the time-frequency resource region, the terminal can perform blind decoding to receive the PDCCH on the search space set for the terminal by receiving information regarding repeated transmission of the repeated PDCCH.

[0256] The base station may transmit information about the CORESET and information about the search space to the terminal. Information about the CORESET will be described below. In this specification, resources constituting the CORESET may have the same meaning as resources included in the CORESET.

[0257] The first information regarding the CORESET may be an index of a PRB or a set of PRBs constituting the CORESET on which the PDCCH is transmitted. The PRB set may be six consecutive PRBs. The index of the PRB or the PRB set may be set in the form of a bitmap. For example, if the bit value is 1, the PRB or the set of PRBs may correspond to the CORESET for receiving the PDCCH. If the bit value is 0, the PRB or the set of PRBs may not correspond to the CORESET for receiving the PDCCH. The second information regarding the CORESET may be the number of symbols on which the PDCCH is transmitted. In this case, the number of symbols may be 1, 2, or 3, and the symbols may be consecutive symbols. The terminal can determine the resource on which the PDCCH is transmitted by receiving the information regarding the CORESET from the base station.

[0258] Specifically, the first information regarding CORESET may set PRB indices to PRB#(6*n), PRB#(6*n+1), PRB#(6*n+2), PRB#(6*n+3), PRB#(6*n+4), and PRB#(6*n+5), where n may be an integer. Specifically, the base station may set P PRB indices to PRB#0, PRB#1, . . . , PRB#(P-1), where P may have a value that is a multiple of 6. In this case, the PRBs may be either consecutive or discontinuous in the frequency domain. The second information regarding CORESET is the number (S) of symbols over which the PDCCH is transmitted, where S may be one of 1, 2, and 3. That is, the terminal may be configured with resources over which the PDCCH is transmitted based on the first information and the second information from the base station.

[0259] Resources corresponding to P PRBs and S symbols constituting the CORESET may be defined as a resource element group (REG). One REG may be one PRB and one symbol. That is, P PRBs and S symbols may be defined as P*S REGs. Two, three, or six adjacent REGs may be bundled together to form one REG bundle. The method of bundling two, three, or six REGs may be determined depending on the length (number of symbols) of the CORESET and the mapping method (interleaved mapping / non-interleaved mapping).

[0260] In a non-interleaved mapping scheme, if the length of the CORESET is one symbol, one REG bundle may be generated by bundling six consecutive REGs in the frequency domain. In a non-interleaved mapping scheme, if the length of the CORESET is two symbols, one REG bundle may be generated by bundling three REGs in each symbol, for a total of six REGs (3 REGs * 2 symbols per symbol). For convenience, when each of the two symbols is referred to as an A symbol and a B symbol, the three REGs in the A symbol may be consecutive to each other in the frequency domain, and the three REGs in the B symbol may be consecutive to each other in the frequency domain. Furthermore, the three REGs in the A symbol and the three REGs in the B symbol may be located in the same frequency domain. In a non-interleaved mapping scheme, if the length of the CORESET is three symbols, one REG bundle may be generated by bundling two REGs in each symbol, for a total of six REGs (2 REGs * 3 symbols per symbol). For convenience, when each of the three symbols of the CORESET length is referred to as a C symbol, a D symbol, and an E symbol, the two REGs in a C symbol may be consecutive in the frequency domain, the two REGs in a D symbol may be consecutive in the frequency domain, and the two REGs in an E symbol may be consecutive to each other in the frequency domain. Also, the two REGs in a C symbol, the two REGs in a D symbol, and the two REGs in an E symbol may be located in the same frequency domain.

[0261] In the interleaved mapping scheme, if the length of the CORESET is one symbol, i) a REG bundle may be generated by bundling six consecutive REGs in the frequency domain. ii) a REG bundle may be generated by bundling two consecutive REGs in the frequency domain. In the interleaved mapping scheme, if the length of the CORESET is two symbols, a REG bundle may be generated by bundling one REG for each symbol. In this case, one REG for each symbol may be located in the same frequency domain. In the interleaved mapping scheme, if the length of the CORESET is three symbols, a REG bundle may be generated by bundling one REG for each symbol. In this case, one REG for each symbol may be located in the same frequency domain.

[0262] A CCE may be generated by bundling REG bundles generated in the above-described manner. In this case, a CCE may be composed of six REGs. That is, since the generated REG bundle is composed of two, three, or six REGs, a CCE may be composed of three, two, or one REG bundle. In the case of non-interleaved mapping, a REG bundle is composed of six REGs regardless of the length of the CORESET. In this case, a CCE may be composed of one REG bundle.

[0263] In the following, this specification proposes a new CORESET (new CORESET) that is different from the existing CORESET. The new CORESET may be composed of at least one of REG, REG bundle, and CCE that is different from the existing CORESET. A method for configuring the new CORESET will be described below.

[0264] i) Method A

[0265] A new CORESET may include at least six consecutive symbols. The base station may transmit information about the CORESET to the terminal and set a CORESET including six consecutive symbols. In this case, the information about the CORESET may include information about the start symbol and symbol length (number) for configuring the new CORESET. The terminal may determine the REG, REG bundle, and CCE structure based on the CORESET including six symbols set by the base station. For convenience of explanation, the six consecutive symbols are represented as symbol #0, symbol #1, symbol #2, symbol #3, symbol #4, and symbol #5.

[0266] FIG. 29 shows a configuration of a control resource set according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0267] Referring to FIG. 29, REG, REG bundle, and CCE may be configured as follows.

[0268] i) A REG may be composed of 12 REs included in one PRB of each of six symbols. ii) A REG bundle may include six REGs for six symbols. That is, a REG bundle may be composed of a REG corresponding to symbol #0, a REG corresponding to symbol #1, ..., a REG corresponding to symbol #5. Since one REG is composed of 12 REs, one REG bundle composed of six REGs may be composed of 72 REs. iii) A CCE may be composed of one REG bundle. Referring to FIG. 29, the number of REGs constituting a REG bundle is the same as the number of symbols constituting a CORESET. However, if CCEs are configured as shown in FIG. 29, each REG bundle constituting a CCE is located in the same PRB, and therefore, the UE cannot obtain frequency diversity. Therefore, there is a problem in that PDCCH reception performance is degraded when the UE monitors one CCE.

[0269] FIG. 30 shows the configuration of a control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0270] Referring to FIG. 30, the REG, REG bundle, and CCE may be configured as follows.

[0271] i) An REG may consist of 12 REs included in one PRB of each symbol. ii) An REG bundle may consist of S REGs corresponding to S consecutive symbols. A method for determining S consecutive symbols will be described later. One REG bundle may consist of REs included in S symbols of one PRB (i.e., 12*S REs). In this case, the value of S may be 1, 2, or 3, and may be a value set by a higher layer. The six consecutive symbols constituting a CORESET may be divided into 6 / S symbol sets. In this case, each symbol set may include S consecutive symbols. For example, of the 6 / S symbol sets, the first symbol set may include symbol #0, symbol #1, ..., symbol #(S-1), and the second symbol set may include symbol #S, symbol #(S+1), ..., symbol #(2*S-1). The subsequent symbol sets may also include sequential S symbols. iii) A CCE may consist of 6 / S REG bundles. In this case, a CCE may be composed of one REG bundle selected from each symbol set. The index of the REG bundle may be set for each symbol set. The terminal may configure a CCE by selecting REG bundles having the same index from each symbol set. The indexes of the REG bundles in each symbol set may be interleaved. Meanwhile, an index may be set for all REG bundles constituting the CORESET. A CCE may be composed of 6 / S consecutive REG bundles among the set indexes. That is, CCE x may be composed of REG bundle #(6 / S*x), REG bundle #(6 / S*x+1), and REG bundle #(6 / S*x+6 / S-1). The method for setting the index of the REG bundle is as follows. The index may be set from the REG bundle corresponding to the temporally leading symbol among the six symbols constituting the CORESET.The REG bundles constituting the PRBs located in the lowest frequency region among the PRBs constituting the CORESET may be indexed based on the time domain, and the REG bundles included in the PRBs located in the next lowest frequency region may be indexed in the time domain. At this time, the indexed indices may be interleaved.

[0272] ii) Method B

[0273] The new CORESET may be composed of a plurality of base CORESETs. The base CORESET may be composed of 1 to 3 consecutive symbols. That is, the base station may transmit information about the new CORESET to the terminal, and in this case, the information about the new CORESET may include information about the number of base CORESETs constituting the new CORESET and information about the number of symbols (1 to 3 consecutive symbols) constituting the base CORESET.

[0274] FIG. 31 illustrates a control resource set consisting of a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0275] Referring to Figure 31, each of the four base CORESETs (base CORESET #0, #1, #2, #3) may be composed of two symbols. A new CORESET may be composed of four base CORESETs. Although Figure 31 shows that the four base CORESETs are composed of the same length (number of symbols) and the same frequency band, each base CORESET may be composed of a different length and frequency band. Furthermore, although each base CORESET is located contiguously on the time domain resource, this is not limitative and the base CORESETs may be discontinuous.

[0276] A method for determining a plurality of basic CORESETs and the arrangement of symbols constituting the plurality of basic CORESETs will be described below.

[0277] The symbols constituting the multiple basic CORESETs may be consecutive in the time domain. Meanwhile, the terminal may receive the starting symbol indexes of the multiple basic CORESETs from the base station. For example, the terminal may receive a bitmap with a size (length) of 14 bits. In this case, the MSB of the bitmap may indicate the first symbol of the slot as the starting symbol index, and the LSB of the bitmap may indicate the last symbol of the slot as the starting symbol index.

[0278] FIG. 32 illustrates a control resource set consisting of a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0279] 32, a bitmap of 14 bits may be [10010000101000]. In this case, the indexes of symbols corresponding to 1 in the bitmap may be 0, 3, 8, and 10. Therefore, the basic control resource set may be configured to start with symbols 0, 3, 8, and 10.

[0280] The terminal may receive a bitmap having a size of 14*N bits from the base station. The bitmap may indicate the starting symbol index for N slots. Specifically, the bitmap may be divided into 14-bit bundles, where the MSB of each 14-bit bundle may indicate the first symbol of the slot as the starting symbol index, and the LSB may indicate the last symbol of the slot as the starting symbol index.

[0281] FIG. 33 shows a method for designing a control resource set using a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0282] 33, the base station can transmit a bitmap of length 28 to the terminal. In this case, the first 14 bits indicate the position of the starting symbol of the basic CORESET in the first slot, and the next 14 bits indicate the position of the starting symbol of the basic CORESET in the second slot. Because the first 14 bits are [10010000000000], the basic CORESET can be configured starting from symbols 0 and 3 in the first slot. Because the next 14 bits are [10100000000000], the basic CORESET can be configured starting from symbols 0 and 2 in the second slot.

[0283] Each of the multiple basic CORESETs may be configured with a different symbol length (number). The base station may transmit to the terminal the position and length of the start symbol of which the basic CORESET is configured within one slot. In this case, the position and length of the start symbol may be set in pairs. Furthermore, the frequency domains of the multiple basic CORESETs may all be the same.

[0284] FIG. 34 illustrates a method for configuring a control resource set using a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0285] Meanwhile, the frequency domains of the multiple base CORESETs may be different from each other. Referring to FIG. 34, a new CORESET may be configured with four base CORESETs. In this case, the multiple base CORESETs may be configured with resources on different frequency domains. For example, the first base CORESET (base CORESET#0) may be configured with the remaining PRBs excluding the lowest six PRBs on the frequency domain. The second base CORESET (base CORESET#1) may be configured with the remaining PRBs excluding the highest six PRBs on the frequency domain. The third base CORESET (base CORESET#2) and the fourth base CORESET (base CORESET#3) may be configured with the remaining PRBs excluding the middle six PRBs. Since each base CORESET is configured with resources on different frequency domains, this is advantageous in terms of frequency diversity.

[0286] Hereinafter, a method for configuring each basic CORESET when each basic CORESET is configured with resources on different frequency domains will be described.

[0287] The base station may configure the frequency resources of each basic CORESET using different bitmaps. For example, there may be a bitmap corresponding to each of multiple basic CORESETs, and each bitmap may indicate whether six bundled PRBs constitute the basic CORESET. In this case, the number of PRBs constituting each basic CORESET may be the same.

[0288] The base station may configure frequency domain resources using two different bitmaps, where the frequency domain resources of odd-numbered basic CORESETs may be indicated by a first bitmap and the frequency domain resources of even-numbered basic CORESETs may be indicated by a second bitmap. Generalizing this, the base station may indicate frequency domain resources of basic CORESETs to a terminal using B different bitmaps. In this case, if n mod B is 0, the frequency domain resources of basic CORESET n may be indicated by the first bitmap, and if n mod B is 1, the frequency domain resources of basic CORESET n may be indicated by the second bitmap. In other words, if n mod B is k, the frequency domain resources of the basic CORESET may be indicated by the (k+1)-th bit of the bitmap. Here, n is the index of the basic CORESET and may be indexed starting from 0.

[0289] The base station may transmit PRB offset values ​​between basic CORESETs to the terminal. For example, frequency domain resources of odd-numbered basic CORESETs among multiple basic CORESETs may be indicated by a bitmap. In this case, the bitmap may indicate whether six bundled PRBs are included in the odd-numbered basic CORESET. In addition, the base station may transmit PRB offsets to the terminal. The PRB offset may be in units of six PRBs. The PRBs included in the even-numbered basic CORESETs may be PRBs corresponding to index values ​​obtained by adding the PRB offset to the index of the PRB included in the odd-numbered basic CORESET.

[0290] If the base station configures a new CORESET for the terminal, the terminal can receive the PDCCH in each basic CORESET. A method for the terminal to receive the PDCCH will now be described.

[0291] The indexes of the CCEs in the basic CORESET may be indexed in a frequency-first manner. That is, among the basic CORESETs constituting a new CORESET, the CCEs included in the earliest basic CORESET in the time domain may be selected first, and the selected CCEs may be indexed in ascending order in the frequency resource domain. In this case, if the number of first CCEs included in the earliest basic CORESET in the time domain is N_CCE0, the first CCEs may be indexed in ascending order in the frequency domain as 0, 1, . . . , N_CCE0-1. The second CCE included in the second earliest basic CORESET in the time domain may be indexed in ascending order in the frequency domain. The index of the second CCE may be indexed as a value subsequent to the last index of the first CCE in the time domain. If the number of CCEs included in the second CCE is N_CCE1, the second CCEs may be indexed in ascending order in the frequency domain as N_CCE0, N_CCE0+1, ..., N_CCE0+N_CCE1-1. In a similar manner, the CCEs of the basic CORESET constituting the new CORESET may be indexed.

[0292] Meanwhile, CCEs of each basic CORESET constituting a new CORESET may be indexed in a time-first manner. For example, among the basic CORESETs constituting the new CORESET, CCEs constituting PRBs in the lowest frequency domain may be selected first, and the selected CCEs may be indexed in ascending order in the time domain. In this case, if the number of first CCEs constituting PRBs in the lowest frequency domain is N_CCE0, the first CCEs may be indexed in ascending order in the time domain as 0, 1, ..., N_CCE0-1. The second CCE constituting the second lowest PRB in the frequency domain may be indexed in ascending order in the time domain. The index of the second CCE may be indexed as a value subsequent to the last index of the first CCE in the frequency domain. If the number of second CCEs is N_CCE1, the second CCEs may be indexed in ascending order in the time domain as N_CCE0, N_CCE0+1, ..., N_CCE0+N_CCE1-1. In a similar manner, the CCEs of the base CORESETs that make up the new CORESET may be indexed.

[0293] FIG. 35 illustrates a method for indexing CCEs in a frequency-first manner according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0294] 35, each basic CORESET constituting a new CORESET may include eight CCEs. In this case, the CCEs corresponding to the first basic CORESET (base CORESET#0) located in symbols 0 and 1 may be indexed as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in a frequency-first manner. The CCEs corresponding to the second basic CORESET (base CORESET#1) located in symbols 2 and 3 may be indexed as 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 in a frequency-first manner. The CCEs of the remaining basic CORESETs constituting the new CORESET may be indexed in a similar manner.

[0295] FIG. 36 illustrates a method for indexing CCEs in a time-first manner according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0296] 36, each PRB included in the new CORESET may be composed of four CCEs. In this case, the CCEs in the lowest frequency range may be indexed as 0, 1, 2, and 3 in a time-prioritized manner. The CCEs in the second lowest frequency range may be indexed as 4, 5, 6, and 7 in a time-prioritized manner. The CCEs of the remaining basic CORESETs constituting the new CORESET may be indexed in a similar manner.

[0297] The terminal can receive a PDCCH of aggregation level L using L CCEs among the CCEs constituting the basic CORESET. In this case, i) L may be a power of 2. For example, L may be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc. In addition, ii) L may be 2^k*C, where k is a natural number and C is the number of basic CORESETs, which may also be a natural number. For example, if a new CORESET is composed of three basic CORESETs, L may have values ​​such as 1*3, 2*3, 4*3, 8*3, 16*3, 32*3, etc.

[0298] Figure 37 shows PDCCH candidates based on CCEs indexed in a frequency-priority manner according to one embodiment of the present invention, and Figure 38 shows PDCCH candidates based on CCEs indexed in a time-priority manner according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0299] 37, the CCEs constituting the new CORESET may be indexed in a frequency-first manner. In this case, the area in which the terminal monitors PDCCH candidates may be CCE12 to CCE23 (12 CCEs). Based on the CCE indexes, the terminal can recognize that the CCEs for which it should monitor PDCCH candidates are the four CCEs included in the second basic CORESET (base CORESET#1) and all CCEs included in the third basic CORESET (base CORESET#2).

[0300] 38, the CCEs constituting the new CORESET may be indexed in a time-priority manner. In this case, the area in which the terminal monitors PDCCH candidates may be CCE12 to CCE23 (12 CCEs). Based on the CCE indexes, the terminal can recognize that the CCEs to monitor PDCCH candidates are three CCEs in each of the four basic CORESETs.

[0301] The CCEs of the basic CORESETs constituting the new CORESET may be indexed independently. For example, if the number of CCEs constituting a first basic CORESET among the basic CORESETs constituting the new CORESET is N_CCE0, the CCEs constituting the first basic CORESET may be indexed as one of 0, 1, . . . , N_CCE0-1. Similarly, if the number of CCEs constituting a second basic CORESET among the basic CORESETs constituting the new CORESET is N_CCE0, the CCEs constituting the second basic CORESET may be indexed as one of 0, 1, . . . , N_CCE0-1. In this case, the terminal may determine CCEs on which a PDCCH is to be received in the first basic CORESET. The terminal may receive a PDCCH of aggregation level L using L CCEs among the CCEs constituting the first basic CORESET. The terminal may receive a PDCCH of aggregation level L using L CCEs among the CCEs constituting the second CORESET. In this case, the PDCCH received on the first CORESET and the PDCCH received on the second CORESET may include the same DCI. That is, the UE can repeatedly receive the PDCCH on different basic CORESETs constituting a new CORESET. Here, L may be a power of 2. For example, L may have values ​​such as 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32.

[0302] FIG. 39 illustrates repeated reception of a PDCCH on a basic control resource set according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0303] Referring to FIG. 39, CCEs of a basic CORESET constituting a new CORESET may be indexed independently. A terminal may receive a first PDCCH of aggregation level 4 on a first basic CORESET (base CORESET#0). In this case, the regions that the terminal monitors to receive a PDCCH with an aggregation level of 4 may be CCE2, CCE3, CCE4, and CCE5 included in the first basic CORESET (base CORESET#0). A terminal may receive a second PDCCH of aggregation level 4 on a second basic CORESET (base CORESET#1). In this case, the regions that the terminal monitors to receive a PDCCH with an aggregation level of 4 may be CCE2, CCE3, CCE4, and CCE5 included in the second basic CORESET (base CORESET#1). Similarly, the terminal may receive a third PDCCH and a fourth PDCCH on a third basic CORESET (base CORESET#2) and a fourth basic CORESET (base CORESET#3), respectively. In this case, the DCIs included in the first, second, third, and fourth PDCCHs may be identical to each other, that is, the terminal can monitor and receive PDCCHs including the same DCI in 16 CCEs.

[0304] When REGs and REG bundles constitute CCEs, interleaving may be applied differently to each basic CORESET in order to distribute the CCEs included in each basic CORESET to different frequency bands, which may facilitate multiplexing between any one basic CORESET and other basic CORESETs that overlap with each other.

[0305] A method for applying interleaving to each basic CORESET will be described below. First, if the index of the REG bundle constituting the basic CORESET is x, the index of the interleaved REG bundle may be f(x). f(x) is expressed by the following equation (7).

[0306]

number

[0307] In the number 7, N REG CORESET is the number of REGs constituting the basic CORESET, and L may be the number of REGs constituting the REG bundle. REG CORESET / L may be the number of REG bundles in the base CORESET. R may be one of the values ​​2, 3, or 6. shift n may be a shift value applied when interleaving is performed on the indexes of the REG bundles that make up each basic CORESET. shift The indices of the REG bundles may be interleaved differently based on n shift may be a value set by the base station to the terminal, or may be a cell ID.

[0308] The base station may use n REG bundles applied to each basic CORESET to interleave the indexes of different REG bundles of different basic CORESETs. shift The value can be set differently for each basic CORESET. shift The indices of the REG bundles can be interleaved based on the value.

[0309] The base station sends a value (n shift,0 ) can be set. At this time, the terminal shift,0 The value can be applied differently to each underlying CORESET. For example, a terminal can shift,0 Multiple the value by n shift The terminal determines the value and interleaves the indexes of the REG bundles. shift,0 Add a value based on the number of REG bundles to the value to get n shift For example, the value of n shift The value is n shift,0 +N REG CORESET / L / N*n, where N is the number of basic CORESETs constituting one new CORESET, and n is the index of the basic CORESET, which may be 0, 1, . . . , N-1. shift,0 +N REG CORESET If the value of / L / N*n is not an integer, it is rounded down, rounded up, or rounded to the integer value n. shift,0 +N REG CORESET / L / N*n, which is the number of REG bundles that are evenly distributed across CCEs. shift This is a method in which the values ​​are set apart by a certain amount.

[0310] FIG. 40 illustrates a process in which a terminal repeatedly receives PDCCH candidates by applying interleaving to a basic control resource set according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0311] 40 shows an example of a method for determining the indexes of CCEs constituting each basic CORESET by using different interleaving for each basic CORESET when the CCEs of the basic CORESETs constituting a new CORESET are indexed independently as described above. Referring to FIG. 40, the first basic CORESET (base CORESET#0) has n shift value n shift,0 +N REG CORESET / L / N*0 is used, and n is used for the second basic CORESET (base CORESET#1). shift value n shift,0 +N REG CORESET / L / N*1 is used, and n is used for the third basic CORESET (base CORESET#2). shift value n shift,0 +N REG CORESET / L / N*2 is used, and n is used in the fourth basic CORESET (base CORESET#3). shift value n shift,0 +N REG CORESET / L / N*3 may be used, where L is 6, N is 4, and N REG CORESET is 48, R is 2, n shift,0 may be 0. Different n shift Since values ​​are applied, they may be interleaved differently in each basic CORESET. In addition, CCE0 of each basic CORESET may be located in the lowest frequency region in the first basic CORESET (base CORESET#0), in a frequency region corresponding to 1 / 4 of the entire frequency band in the second basic CORESET (base CORESET#1), in a frequency region corresponding to 2 / 4 of the entire frequency band in the third basic CORESET (base CORESET#2), and in a frequency region corresponding to 3 / 4 of the entire frequency band in the fourth basic CORESET. Therefore, CCE0 of each basic CORESET may be distributed equally across the frequency band.

[0312] Referring to FIG. 40, a terminal may receive a PDCCH of aggregation level 4 on a first basic CORESET (base CORESET#0). In this case, the regions that the terminal monitors to receive a PDCCH of aggregation level 4 may be CCE2, CCE3, CCE4, and CCE5 of the first basic CORESET. Similarly, the terminal may receive a PDCCH of aggregation level 4 by monitoring CCE2, CCE3, CCE4, and CCE5 in each of the second, third, and fourth basic CORESETs. In this case, the PDCCHs of aggregation level 4 received on the first, second, third, and fourth basic CORESETs may include the same DCI. As different interleaving is applied to each basic CORESET, CCE2, CCE3, CCE4, and CCE5 of each basic CORESET may be distributed in the frequency domain. Therefore, such a method is efficient in terms of frequency diversity.

[0313] A method for the UE to receive the PDCCH will be described below. At this time, the PDCCH may be transmitted on a CORESET, and the CORESET at this time may be the existing CORESET or the new CORESET described above.

[0314] iii) Method C

[0315] The base station may transmit information about one CORESET and information about multiple search spaces corresponding to one CORESET to the terminal. Each of the multiple search spaces may have a period and an offset. Here, the period and offset may be set in slot units. The information about the multiple search spaces may include information about the index of a start symbol that the terminal monitors in order to receive the PDCCH within the slot. The terminal may monitor the PDCCH in an area determined based on the period and offset of each of the multiple search spaces and the index of the start symbol received from the base station, and receive the PDCCH. That is, the terminal may receive the PDCCH in each of the multiple search spaces corresponding to one CORESET. In this case, the DCI included in each PDCCH received in the multiple search spaces may be the same. Therefore, the PDCCH may be repeatedly transmitted.

[0316] A base station may set an index for each of a plurality of search spaces to transmit a PDCCH including the same DCI in a plurality of search spaces to a terminal. That is, the terminal can recognize that the search spaces indexed by the base station transmit the same DCI. For example, the base station sets search space 1 and search space 2 to the terminal, and the terminal can recognize that the DCI included in the PDCCH repeatedly transmitted in search space 1 and search space 2 is the same. In this case, the period of search space 1 and the period of search space 2 may be the same. That is, the base station sets the periods of a plurality of search spaces transmitting the same DCI to be the same, so that the terminal can determine the interval (resource region) in which the PDCCH will be repeatedly transmitted. For example, if the period of search space 1 and the period of search space 2 are the same as P, the terminal may determine slots with slot indices P*n, P*n+1, ..., P*n+P-1 as the interval in which the PDCCH will be repeatedly transmitted, and the PDCCH including the same DCI may be repeatedly transmitted in a plurality of search spaces included in the determined interval. In this case, n may have the values ​​0, 1, 2, . . .

[0317] FIG. 41 shows that PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted on multiple search spaces according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0318] Referring to FIG. 41, two search spaces may be configured in one CORESET. The first search space (search space #A) of the two search spaces may have a period of 4 slots and an offset of 0 slot. Thus, the UE can monitor to receive a PDCCH in the first search space (search space #A) of slot 0, slot 4, and slot 8. The second search space (search space #B) of the two search spaces may have a period of 4 slots and an offset of 1 slot. Thus, the UE can monitor to receive a PDCCH in the second search space (search space #B) of slot 1, slot 5, and slot 9. When the UE is configured to repeatedly receive a PDCCH including the same DCI in multiple search spaces, it can receive repeated PDCCHs including the same DCI in the search spaces of slot 0, slot 1, slot 2, and slot 3 based on a common period (the period of the first search space and the second search space). Furthermore, the UE can receive a repeated PDCCH carrying the same DCI on the search space of slot 4, slot 5, slot 6, and slot 7 based on a common period.

[0319] Meanwhile, the period of the first search space and the period of the second search space may be different from each other. In this case, a resource region (period) in which the PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted needs to be defined. The period in which the PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted may be determined based on the least common multiple of the periods of the first search space and the second search space. The period in which the PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted may be determined based on the greatest common divisor of the periods of the first search space and the second search space. The period in which the PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted may be determined based on a relatively larger period of the periods of the first search space and the second search space. The period in which the PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted may be determined based on a relatively smaller period of the periods of the first search space and the second search space. The base station may separately transmit (configure) the period of the period in which the PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted to the terminal.

[0320] The base station can transmit (configure) multiple periods and offset values ​​for one search space to the terminal. The base station can also transmit (configure) indexes of start symbols that the terminal monitors to receive PDCCHs on multiple slots. The terminal can receive repeated PDCCHs containing the same DCI based on multiple periods, offset values, and start symbol indexes.

[0321] In order to transmit PDCCHs including the same DCI in the search space, the base station may transmit (configure) the period and offset value of one search space to the terminal. The base station may also transmit (configure) the index of the starting symbol that the terminal must monitor to receive the PDCCH within one slot to the terminal. In addition, the base station may indicate the number of slots (K) for setting the search space that the terminal repeatedly monitors. The number of slots (K) may be a natural number smaller than the period of the search space. Specifically, the search space that the terminal monitors to receive the PDCCH may be set according to the period. The search space may be set based on the index of the starting symbol within the slot indicated by the base station. In other words, the search space may be set from the starting symbol indicated by the index. The base station may also indicate the number of slots (K) for setting the search space that the terminal repeatedly monitors. For example, if the base station indicates that the value of K is 2, the search space may be set to the same value in slot n and slot n+1. In this case, the index of the symbol at which the search space starts may be n, which is the same as the slot index. Thus, the search space in slot n and slot n+1 may be established starting from symbol n in each slot.

[0322] FIG. 42 illustrates a PDCCH being transmitted based on a search space and iteration setting according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0323] Referring to FIG. 42, the period of the search space may be 4 slots, and the offset may be 0 slots. Therefore, the search space may be set to slot 0, slot 4, slot 8, .... In addition, the terminal may be instructed to set the number of slots (K) for repeatedly monitoring the search space to 2. In this case, the search space for the terminal to monitor the repeated PDCCH may be set to the slots (slot 1, slot 5, slot 9, ...) immediately following the slot (slot 0, slot 4, slot 8, ...) in which the initial search space is set.

[0324] The base station may transmit (set) a period and an offset value of one search space to the terminal. The base station may also transmit (set) K indexes of start symbols at which the terminal performs PDCCH monitoring within a slot. Specifically, the terminal may perform monitoring based on a first index of a symbol at which monitoring for receiving the PDCCH begins within slot n. For example, if the first index is 0, the search space is set from the first symbol of slot n, and the terminal may perform monitoring for PDCCH reception in the search space of slot n. The terminal may perform monitoring based on a second index of a symbol at which monitoring for receiving the PDCCH begins within slot n+1. For example, if the second index is 2, the search space is set from the third symbol of slot n+1, and the terminal may perform monitoring for PDCCH reception in the search space of slot n+1.

[0325] FIG. 43 illustrates PDCCHs being transmitted at different starting symbol positions based on search space and iteration settings according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0326] Referring to FIG. 43, the search space may be set with a period of 4 slots and an offset of 0 slots. Therefore, the search space may be set as slot 0, slot 4, slot 8, ... In addition, the base station may set 0 and 7 as the starting symbol index of the search space. Therefore, the search space may be set starting from symbol 0 in slot 0, slot 4, slot 8, ..., and the repeated search space may be set starting from symbol 7 in the following slots, slot 1, slot 5, slot 9, ....

[0327] The base station can configure multiple search spaces within a CORESET configured in one slot. To do this, the base station can instruct the terminal on the number of starting symbols (K) of the search space. For example, if the value of K is 2, two search spaces can be configured in slot n. Specifically, the first search space can be configured from the first symbol of slot n, and the second search space can be configured from the symbol immediately following the last symbol of the first search space.

[0328] The base station can configure multiple search spaces within a CORESET configured in one slot. To do this, the base station can indicate K indices of the starting symbols of the search spaces to the terminal. For example, if the value of K is 2, the base station indicates the first and second indexes as the starting symbol indices, and there can be two search spaces. In this case, if the value of the first index is 0, the first search space is configured from the first symbol of slot n, and if the value of the second index is 2, the second search space is configured from the third symbol of slot n.

[0329] In the above-mentioned method C, since the region in which the PDCCH is transmitted is one CORESET, the resources in the frequency domain are fixed to a certain band, and the number of symbols in the CORESET is also fixed. In this specification, one CORESET may mean the same resources in the time-frequency domain set in each slot. Therefore, there is a problem that this is disadvantageous in terms of frequency diversity and the number of symbols cannot be adjusted according to the slot configuration. A method for solving this problem will be described below.

[0330] iv) Method D

[0331] A base station can configure multiple CORESETs for one downlink BWP. The time-frequency resources of each CORESET may be configured independently. One or more search spaces may be configured in each CORESET. Specifically, each of the multiple search spaces may be mapped to a respective CORESET based on an indicator indicating the CORESET.

[0332] For example, a different search space may be set for each of the multiple CORESETs. The base station may transmit an indicator to the terminal indicating the PDCCH to be repeatedly transmitted on the multiple CORESETs. Specifically, the base station may transmit an indicator to the terminal indicating that the PDCCH will be repeatedly transmitted on the first CORESET and the second CORESET. In this case, if the indicator value is 1, it may indicate that the repeated PDCCH will be transmitted on the first search space corresponding to the first CORESET, and if the indicator value is 2, it may indicate that the repeated PDCCH will be transmitted on the second search space corresponding to the second CORESET. In this case, the DCI included in the PDCCH repeatedly transmitted on the multiple CORESETs may be the same.

[0333] For example, the base station may configure multiple CORESETs and one search space. Specifically, the terminal may receive from the base station an indicator indicating which of the multiple CORESETs a search space is mapped to. In addition, the terminal may receive (configure) from the base station a period, offset, and start symbol index of the search space. The search spaces determined based on the period, offset, and start symbol index may be sequentially mapped to multiple CORESETs. In this case, the DCI included in each PDCCH transmitted on the multiple CORESETs may be the same. Since DCI can be transmitted on multiple CORESETs, frequency diversity can be achieved.

[0334] FIG. 44 illustrates PDCCH transmission on multiple control resource sets according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0335] Referring to FIG. 44, the period of the search space may be 2 slots, and the offset may be 0 slot. Therefore, the search space may be set to slot 0, slot 2, slot 4, slot 6, slot 8, and so on. The search spaces set to slot 0, slot 2, slot 4, slot 6, slot 8, and so on may each be mapped to one of two CORESETs (CORESET#A, CORSET#B). Odd-numbered search spaces (i.e., search spaces set to slot 0, slot 4, and slot 8) may be mapped to CORESET#A, and even-numbered search spaces (i.e., search spaces set to slot 2 and slot 6) may be mapped to CORESET#B. In this case, the resource interval over which the PDCCH is transmitted may be equal to the value obtained by multiplying the period of the search space by the number of CORESETs. That is, the resource interval over which the PDCCH is transmitted may be 4, which is obtained by multiplying the period of the search space by the number of CORESETs, and the unit of the value may be slots. The terminal can receive the PDCCH in slot 0, slot 1, slot 2, and slot 3. The terminal can also receive the PDCCH in slot 4, slot 5, slot 6, and slot 7.

[0336] A search space may be set based on multiple periods, offsets, and starting symbol indices set by the base station. Since multiple search spaces correspond to multiple CORESETs, the number of search spaces may be the same as the number of CORESETs. In other words, the number of sets of setting values ​​for each search space may be the same as the number of CORESETs. In this case, a set may include multiple periods, offsets, and starting symbol indices. For example, a search space determined based on a first period, offset, and starting symbol indices may be mapped to a first CORESET, and a search space determined based on a second period, offset, and starting symbol indices may be mapped to a second CORESET.

[0337] Furthermore, the search space may be set based on the number of slots (K) over which the search space is repeated. In this case, K may be the same as the number of CORESETs, and thus K may be set without additional signaling. For example, if K is 2, slot n is determined based on the period and offset, and the search space determined based on the starting symbol index in slot n may be mapped to the first CORESET, and the search space determined based on the starting symbol index in slot n+1 may be mapped to the second CORESET.

[0338] Furthermore, the search space may be determined based on the number of start symbol indexes. In this case, the number of start symbol indexes may be the same as the number of CORESETs. For example, if there are two start symbol indexes, the search space determined based on the first start symbol index in slot n may be mapped to the first CORESET, and the search space determined based on the second start symbol index in slot n+1 may be mapped to the second CORESET.

[0339] v) Method E

[0340] A method for receiving DM-RS of a repeated PDCCH including the same DCI transmitted from a base station to a terminal will be described.

[0341] A wideband reference signal (RS) may be configured, and the terminal may determine a REG that assumes the same precoder depending on whether the wideband RS is configured.

[0342] If no wideband RS is configured, the UE may assume that the same precoder is applied to the REGs constituting the REG bundle. That is, the UE may perform channel estimation using the DM-RS of the REGs included in the REG bundle. The UE may compensate for the phase of the signal received in the RE included in the REG constituting the REG bundle based on the channel estimation result.

[0343] When a wideband RS is configured, the terminal may assume that the same precoder is applied to adjacent REGs in the time-frequency domain. The terminal may assume that the same precoder is applied to adjacent REGs in the time-frequency domain among REGs mapped to multiple CORESETs. In this case, the multiple CORESETs may be regions in which the same DCI is transmitted. Furthermore, the terminal may assume that the same precoder is applied to adjacent REGs in the time-frequency domain among REGs corresponding to multiple search spaces. In this case, PDCCHs including the same DCI may be transmitted in the search spaces. The terminal may assume that the same precoder is applied to adjacent REGs in the time-frequency domain among REGs included in one CORESET. In other words, the terminal does not assume that the same precoder is applied to REGs in different CORESETs even if they are adjacent to each other in the time-frequency domain. Different CORESETs may include CORESETs in which the same DCI is repeatedly transmitted. However, different CORESETs may exclude CORESETs in which the same DCI is repeatedly transmitted. The UE may assume that the same precoder is applied to adjacent REGs in the time-frequency domain among REGs corresponding to one search space. That is, even if adjacent REGs in the time-frequency domain are included in the same CORESET, if they correspond to different search spaces, the UE does not assume that the same precoder is applied. Different search spaces may include search spaces in which the same DCI is transmitted. However, different search spaces may exclude search spaces in which the same DCI is transmitted.

[0344] The UE can assume that the same precoder is applied to REGs in an area where PDCCH is repeatedly transmitted (a plurality of basic CORESETs constituting one CORESET, or a plurality of search spaces or a plurality of CORESETs corresponding to one CORESET). The repeatedly transmitted areas do not necessarily need to be adjacent in the time-frequency domain. That is, the UE can assume that the same precoder is applied to REGs included in areas that are not adjacent in the time-frequency domain. This allows the UE to assume that the same precoder is applied to areas that are not adjacent in the time-frequency domain, thereby improving the channel estimation performance using DM-RS.

[0345] Among resources used by a base station to transmit a repeated PDCCH including the same DCI to a terminal, REs of some symbols are not used for DM-RS but may be used to transmit DCI. For example, when repeated PDCCHs including the same DCI are configured to be transmitted on adjacent symbols, the base station does not need to allocate DM-RS to REs of all symbols for transmitting each repeated PDCCH. In this case, all or some of the symbols to which DM-RS is not allocated may be used to transmit DCI. Each repeated PDCCH may be adjacent PDCCHs on a resource region. A specific method of allocating DM-RS in this case will be described below.

[0346] i) The base station may not include a DM-RS in some or all of the REs corresponding to symbols in the repeated PDCCH that transmit PDCCHs that are multiples of 2. For example, if k is 2, the base station may not allocate a DM-RS to some or all of the REs corresponding to symbols in the repeated PDCCH that transmit PDCCHs that are multiples of 2 (i.e., even-numbered). ii) The base station may not allocate a DM-RS to some or all of the REs corresponding to symbols that are multiples of k in the repeated PDCCH that transmit DM-RS repeatedly. For example, if k is 2, the base station may not allocate a DM-RS to some or all of the REs corresponding to symbols that are multiples of 2 (i.e., even-numbered). iii) The base station may allocate a DM-RS to REs corresponding to each k-th symbol in the repeated PDCCH, and may not allocate a DM-RS to REs corresponding to the remaining symbols excluding the k-th symbol. For example, if k is 1, a DM-RS may be assigned to an RE corresponding to the first symbol of each repeated PDCCH, and no DM-RS may be mapped to REs corresponding to the remaining symbols excluding the first symbol. iv) The base station may assign a DM-RS to REs corresponding to the first through k-th symbols of each repeated PDCCH, and may not assign a DM-RS to all or some of the REs corresponding to the remaining symbols excluding the first through k-th symbols. For example, if k is 2, the base station may assign a DM-RS to REs corresponding to the first and second symbols of each repeated PDCCH, and may not assign a DM-RS to all or some of the remaining REs excluding the REs corresponding to the first and second symbols. In the above iii) and iv), the value of k may be determined based on the number of symbols over which the PDCCH is transmitted. For example, k may be determined as ceil(PDCCH_length / 2). PDCCH_length is the number of symbols over which the PDCCH is transmitted. That is, if the number of symbols over which the PDCCH is transmitted is 1 or 2, k is 1, and if the number of symbols is 3, k is 2. In this case, the k value may be a value set by the base station.

[0347] vi) Method F

[0348] The same sequence may be used for DM-RSs allocated to repeated PDCCHs including the same DCI. That is, the terminal may determine that the same sequence is used for the DM-RSs allocated to the repeated PDCCHs and determine that the DCIs included in the repeated PDCCHs are the same. In addition, the terminal may perform phase compensation by using or comparing the DM-RSs allocated to the repeated PDCCHs. The DCIs included in the repeated PDCCHs may be the same.

[0349] More specifically, slot n μ s,f The sequence of the DM-RS assigned to the symbol l may be determined as follows:

[0350]

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[0351] In Equation 8, the initial value of the pseudo-random sequence c(i) may be calculated as follows:

[0352]

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[0353] In the number 9, n μ s,f is the index of the slot within the subframe, l is the index of the symbol within the slot, and N ID may be one of the values ​​0, 1, ..., 65535 or may be the same value as the cell ID.

[0354] A method for applying the same sequence to the DM-RS allocated to the repetitive PDCCH will now be described.

[0355] i) The sequences used for DM-RSs allocated to repeated PDCCHs may have the same initial value. The initial value may be determined using the slot index and symbol index of the slot in which the first PDCCH of the repeated PDCCHs is transmitted. The determined initial value may be used for each symbol of each slot in which the repeated PDCCHs are transmitted. For example, the first PDCCH of the repeated PDCCHs may be transmitted at symbols i and i+1 in slot n1, and the second PDCCH of the repeated PDCCHs may be transmitted at symbols j and j+1 in slot n2. In this case, the initial value of the DM-RS sequence of the first PDCCH may be used as the initial value of the DM-RS sequence of the second PDCCH. That is, the initial value of the sequence used for the DM-RS allocated to the first symbol of the second PDCCH is c init (n1,i), and the initial value of the sequence used for the DM-RS assigned to the second symbol of the second PDCCH is c init (n1, i+1). ii) When the repeated PDCCH is transmitted in one slot, the index value I of the symbols in the resource region transmitting the repeated PDCCH may be set to the same value. For example, when the repeated PDCCH is repeated four times in one slot, the first repeated PDCCH may be transmitted on symbols 0 to 2, the second repeated PDCCH on symbols 3 to 5, the third repeated PDCCH on symbols 6 to 8, and the fourth repeated PDCCH on symbols 9 to 11. In this case, the index value l of the first symbol (i.e., symbols 0, 3, 6, and 9) in the region transmitting each repeated PDCCH may be set to 0, and the index value l of the second symbol (i.e., symbols 1, 4, 7, and 11) may be set to 1. As another example, the index value of the symbol in which the first PDCCH of the repeated PDCCH is transmitted may be set to I. That is, the index values ​​of the symbols in which the remaining PDCCHs other than the first PDCCH of the repeated PDCCH are transmitted may be I. iii) When the repeated PDCCHs are transmitted on different slots, the slot index value n μ s,fFor example, the n μ s,f may be set to 0, and n in the second slot μ s,f may be set to 1. As yet another example, n μ s,f may be the index of the slot in which the first PDCCH of the repeated PDCCHs is transmitted, i.e., n of the remaining PDCCHs excluding the first PDCCH. μ s,f may be equal to the index of the slot in which the first PDCCH is transmitted.

[0356] iv)n μ s,f may be applied equally to N slots. For example, μ s,f is c init (floor(n μ s,f / N)*N,l). floor(x) is a function that returns the largest integer among integers smaller than or equal to x. N may be a value set by the base station. N may be a value determined based on the number of slots in which the repeated PDCCH is transmitted. N may be the same as the number of slots in which the repeated PDCCH is transmitted. v)n μ s,f may be used in the same manner for N slots, with a specific slot as the reference (for example, slot n0). μ s,f is c init (floor((n μ s,f -n0) / N)*N,l). N may be a value set by the base station. N may be a value determined based on the number of slots in which the repeated PDCCH is transmitted. N may be the same as the number of slots in which the repeated PDCCH is transmitted. n0 may be an index of a slot in which the first PDCCH of the repeated PDCCH is transmitted. n0 may be set by the base station.

[0357] CCEs corresponding to PDCCH candidates in a first search space of a first CORESET and PDCCH candidates in a second search space of a second CORESET, in which a repeated PDCCH including the same DCI is transmitted, may be determined based on a hashing function. The number of blind decodings and the number of non-overlapping CCEs for monitoring the repeated PDCCH candidates in the first search space and receiving the repeated PDCCH may be different from the number of blind decodings and the number of non-overlapping CCEs for monitoring the repeated PDCCH in the second search space and receiving the repeated PDCCH. That is, the maximum number of blind decodings and the number of non-overlapping CCEs may be different for each slot (or for a specific time period). Therefore, a terminal may be able to receive the repeated PDCCH in the first search space (i.e., if the conditions for the maximum number of blind decodings and the number of non-overlapping CCEs are met), but may not be able to receive the repeated PDCCH in the second search space. This makes it difficult to extend coverage by repeatedly receiving the repeated PDCCH. Below, we explain how to apply a hashing function to extend coverage.

[0358] vii) Method G

[0359] The same hash function may be applied to the area where a repeated PDCCH containing the same DCI is repeatedly transmitted (multiple basic CORESETs that constitute one CORESET, multiple search spaces corresponding to one CORESET, or multiple CORESETs).

[0360]

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[0361]

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[0362]

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[0363]

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[0364] N CCE,p M may be the number of CCEs that make up the CORESET. (L) s,max n may be the number of repeated PDCCH candidates whose aggregation level is L that the terminal monitors. cI may be the value indicated by the carrier indicator field.

[0365]

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[0366] A method for determining the specific number will be described below. When the number of CCEs constituting multiple CORESETs is different, the specific number may be determined based on the CORESET consisting of the fewest CCEs. Alternatively, the specific number may be determined based on the CORESET consisting of the most CCEs. Alternatively, the specific number may be determined based on the CORESET from which the first PDCCH of the repeated PDCCHs is transmitted. Alternatively, the specific number may be determined based on the CORESET with the lowest index among the multiple CORESETs. Alternatively, the specific number may be determined based on the CORESET with the highest index among the multiple CORESETs.

[0367]

number

[0368] FIG. 45 is a flowchart illustrating a repetitive PDCCH transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0369] With reference to FIG. 45, a method for transmitting a repeated PDCCH including the same DCI as described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 44 will be described.

[0370] The terminal may receive configuration information regarding the first CORESET and configuration information regarding the second CORESET from the base station (S4510, S4520).

[0371] The terminal can receive the first PDCCH transmitted on the first CORESET and the second PDCCH transmitted on the second CORESET from the base station (S4530, S4540).

[0372] In this case, the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH may be repeatedly transmitted from the base station.

[0373] The first DCI included in the first PDCCH and the second DCI included in the second PDCCH may be the same.

[0374] The first PDCCH and the second PDCCH may be set to the same aggregation level (AL).

[0375] The first CORESET and the second CORESET may be resources on different time-frequency domains, or the first CORESET and the second CORESET may be resources on the same time-frequency domain.

[0376] The first PDCCH and the second PDCCH may be included in the same slot and repeatedly transmitted, or the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH may be repeatedly transmitted in different slots.

[0377] The first DCI and the second DCI may be decoded independently, or the first DCI and the second DCI may be decoded jointly. In this case, if the terminal cannot decode the first DCI and the second DCI independently, the terminal may jointly decode the first DCI and the second DCI.

[0378] The terminal may receive configuration information regarding a first search space and configuration information regarding a second search space from the base station. The first search space may be associated with the first CORESET, and the second search space may be associated with the second CORESET. In this case, the first search space and the second search space may be resources on different time domains. Furthermore, the first PDCCH may be received on the first search space, and the second PDCCH may be received on the second search space.

[0379] The configuration information regarding the first search space may include information regarding a period of the first search space, and the configuration information regarding the second search space may include information regarding a period of the second search space, wherein the period of the first search space and the period of the second search space may be the same.

[0380] The terminal may transmit HARQ-ACK information for one of the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH to the base station, where the HARQ-ACK information may be HARQ-ACK information for a PDCCH transmitted on a search space with a lower index among the first search space index and the second search space index.

[0381] The terminal may receive a third PDCCH on a third search space from the base station. The terminal may transmit HARQ-ACK information for any one of the first PDCCH, the second PDCCH, and the third PDCCH to the base station. In this case, the third PDCCH may include a third DCI different from the first DCI and the second DCI. If the third search space overlaps with any one of the first search space or the second search space, the HARQ-ACK information may be HARQ-ACK information for a PDCCH transmitted on a search space with the lowest index among the overlapping search spaces.

[0382] The first search space type and the second search space type may be the same, and in this case, the first search space type and the second search space type may be one of a common search space and a UE specific search space.

[0383] The terminal performing the method described in Figure 45 may be the terminal described in Figure 11. Specifically, the terminal may include a communication module for transmitting and receiving radio signals and a processor for controlling the communication module. In this case, the processor of the terminal may perform the method for receiving a repetitive PDCCH described in this specification.

[0384] Furthermore, the base station transmitting the repetitive PDCCH described in this specification may include a communication module for transmitting and receiving radio signals and a processor for controlling the communication module. In this case, the base station may be the base station described in FIG. 11. In this case, the processor of the base station may perform the method for transmitting the repetitive PDCCH described in this specification.

[0385] Although the method and system of the present invention have been described in connection with particular embodiments, some or all of its components or operations may be implemented using a computer system having a general-purpose hardware architecture.

[0386] The above description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only, and those skilled in the art will understand that the present invention can be easily modified into other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. Therefore, the above-described embodiments should be understood as illustrative in all respects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single component may be implemented in a distributed form, and similarly, components described as distributed may be implemented in a combined form.

[0387] The scope of the present invention is represented by the claims set forth below rather than the above detailed description, and all modifications and variations derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be interpreted as being included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. 1. A method for receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system, the method being performed by a terminal, the method comprising: receiving configuration information regarding a first control resource set (CORESET) from a base station; receiving configuration information regarding a second CORESET from the base station; receiving a first PDCCH transmitted on the first CORESET from the base station; and receiving a second PDCCH transmitted on the second CORESET from the base station; The first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are repeatedly transmitted from the base station, A method in which first downlink control information (DCI) included in the first PDCCH and second DCI included in the second PDCCH are identical.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are configured to have the same aggregation level (AL).

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first CORESET and the second CORESET are resources in different time-frequency domains.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first CORESET and the second CORESET are resources on the same time-frequency domain.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are included in the same slot and repeatedly transmitted.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are repeatedly transmitted on different slots.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI and the second DCI are decoded independently.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI and the second DCI are jointly decoded.

9. receiving configuration information regarding a first search space from the base station; and receiving configuration information regarding a second search space from the base station; the first search space is associated with the first CORESET, and the second search space is associated with the second CORESET; the first search space and the second search space are resources in different time domains, The method of claim 1 , wherein the first PDCCH is received on the first search space and the second PDCCH is received on the second search space.

10. the configuration information regarding the first search space includes information regarding a period of the first search space; the configuration information regarding the second search space includes information regarding a period of the second search space; The method of claim 9 , wherein the period of the first search space and the period of the second search space are the same.

11. The method further includes transmitting HARQ-ACK information for one of the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH to the base station, The method of claim 9, wherein the HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information for a PDCCH transmitted on a search space with a lower index among the first search space index and the second search space index.

12. receiving a third PDCCH on a third search space from the base station; The method further includes transmitting HARQ-ACK information for any one of the first PDCCH, the second PDCCH, and the third PDCCH to the base station; The third PDCCH includes a third DCI different from the first DCI and the second DCI, The method of claim 9, wherein, when the third search space overlaps with either the first search space or the second search space, the HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information for a PDCCH transmitted on the search space with the lowest index among the overlapping search spaces.

13. the first search space type and the second search space type are the same; The method of claim 9, wherein the first search space type and the second search space type are one of a common search space and a UE specific search space.

14. A terminal that receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system, comprising: The terminal comprises a transceiver; a processor for controlling the transceiver; The processor: receiving configuration information for a first control resource set (CORESET) from a base station; receiving configuration information for a second CORESET from the base station; receiving a first PDCCH transmitted on the first CORESET from the base station; configured to receive, from the base station, a second PDCCH transmitted on the second CORESET; The first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are repeatedly transmitted from the base station, A terminal, wherein first downlink control information (DCI) included in the first PDCCH and second DCI included in the second PDCCH are identical.

15. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are configured to have the same aggregation level (AL).

16. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are included in the same slot and repeatedly transmitted.

17. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are repeatedly transmitted on different slots.

18. The processor: receiving configuration information regarding a first search space from the base station; further configured to receive configuration information regarding a second search space from the base station; the first search space is associated with the first CORESET, and the second search space is associated with the second CORESET; the first search space and the second search space are resources in different time domains, The terminal of claim 14 , wherein the first PDCCH is received on the first search space and the second PDCCH is received on the second search space.

19. the configuration information regarding the first search space includes information regarding a period of the first search space; the configuration information regarding the second search space includes information regarding a period of the second search space; The terminal of claim 18 , wherein the period of the first search space and the period of the second search space are the same.

20. 1. A method for transmitting a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system, the method being performed by a base station, the method comprising: sending configuration information regarding a first control resource set (CORESET) to the terminal; transmitting configuration information regarding a second CORESET to the terminal; transmitting a first PDCCH on the first CORESET to the terminal; and transmitting a second PDCCH to the terminal on the second CORESET; the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are repeatedly transmitted to the terminal, and first downlink control information (DCI) included in the first PDCCH and second DCI included in the second PDCCH are identical.

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