Chapter 10: Physical-Layer Control Signaling

Abstract

To support the transmission of downlink and uplink transport channels, there is a need for certain associated control signaling, often referred to as L1/L2 control signaling. This chapter describes the details around the downlink and uplink control channels in NR.

Keywords

Downlink control information (DCI); Uplink control information (UCI); PDCCH; PUCCH; CORESET; DCI formats; Blind decoding

To support the transmission of downlink and uplink transport channels, there is a need for certain associated control signaling. This control signaling is often referred to as L1/L2 control signaling, indicating that the corresponding information partly originates from the physical layer (layer ...

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