the present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network , like a cellular network . for instance , the network may be a umts network as depicted on fig1 . referring to fig1 , a radio communication system in accordance with the invention comprises a primary station ( bs or enodeb ) 100 and a plurality of secondary stations ( ms or ue ) 110 . the primary station 100 comprises a microcontroller ( μc ) 102 , transceiver means ( tx / rx ) 104 connected to antenna means 106 , power control means ( pc ) 107 for altering the transmitted power level , and connection means 108 for connection to the pstn or other suitable network . each ue 110 comprises a microcontroller ( μc ) 112 , transceiver means ( tx / rx ) 114 connected to antenna means 116 , and power control means ( pc ) 118 for altering the transmitted power level . communication from primary station 100 to mobile station 110 takes place on downlink channels , while communication from secondary station 110 to primary station 100 takes place on uplink channels . in this example , the downlink channels comprise control channels , like pdcch . such control channels may be transmitted over a plurality of carriers . these carriers may be defined by frequency carriers or in a variant of the invention , coding modulation . the first embodiment of the invention provides an efficient scheme for signaling grant of resources , either uplink resources or downlink resources , which may be transmitted on multiple carriers for a communication system such as lte or lte advanced . in fact , in the first release of the lte specifications ( rel - 8 ), a single carrier of up to 20 mhz is used . a control signalling message on the physical downlink control channel ( pdcch ) is used to signal allocations of transmission resources . each user equipment is configured with a search space within which to search for such signalling messages , in order to avoid having to decode every possible location in every subframe , which would result in a very large blind decoding overhead . however , in future extensions of lte to multiple carriers , signalling will be needed to indicate resource allocations on each of the component carriers . it is desirable to avoid a significant increase in the number of blind decodes required . the current main option considered in 3gpp is to have separate pdcchs for each component carrier ( cc ) where either : one pdcch indicates an allocation on the same cc or one pdcch indicates an allocation on the same or a different cc it is therefore beneficial in either case for there to be a search space for pdcch messages on each carrier ( i . e . a set of possible locations for a pdcch in each of which the ue attempts to decode a pdcch ( i . e . blind decoding ). in general , it would be desirable for the ue to be able to receive a pdcch on any of the ccs ( and typically more than one pdcch at the same time ). in order to avoid too great an increase in signal processing due to the total number of blind decodes , the search space on each carrier should be kept as small as possible . currently in release 8 , the position of the ue - specific search space for pdcch for a given ue changes from subframe to subframe according to the following in ts36 . 213 : “ the set of pdcch candidates to monitor are defined in terms of search spaces , where a search space s k ( l ) at aggregation level l ∈{ 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 } is defined by a set of pdcch candidates . the cces corresponding to pdcch candidate m of the search space s k ( l ) are given by where y k is defined below , i = 0 , . . . , l − 1 and m = 0 , . . . , m ( l ) − 1 . m ( l ) is the number of pdcch candidates to monitor in the given search space . for the ue - specific search space s k ( l ) at aggregation level l , the variable y k is defined by where y − 1 = n rnti ≠ 0 , a = 39827 , d = 65537 and k =└ n s / 2 ┘, n s is the slot number within a radio frame . the rnti value used for n rnti is defined in section 7 . 1 in downlink and section 8 in uplink .” the rnti value is specific to the ue , and the aggregation level is 1 , 2 , 4 or 8 . there is also a common search space ( starting at cce zero ) intended for broadcast control messages to a number of ues . if the ue - specific search space per carrier is reduced ( as is likely to be required for the case of multiple carriers ), then there is a significant probability that it will collide with either a part of the common search space or the search space of another ue . this may lead to blocking of the control channel , preventing the enb scheduling the desired dl and / or ul transmissions and thus a loss of performance ( e . g . throughput or qos ). a possible set of search spaces for additional carriers is given in the table below ( on the assumption that there is no common search space on additional carriers ) and which shows the possible pdcch candidates monitored by a ue ( release 10 , additional carriers only ). providing two possible locations for pdcch candidates allows for two pddchs to be sent to a ue in the same subframe , for example , one carrying an ul grant and the other a dl resource allocation . currently in release 8 it is assumed that in fdd operation the uplink and downlink carriers are paired . this means that an ul grant transmitted using a pdcch on a given downlink carrier implicitly indicates a particular ul carrier . in the case of carrier aggregation , we can consider the following cases : either the number of dl carriers is equal to or greater than the number of ul carriers , which means that a one - to - one association can be created between each ul carrier and a dl carrier , and all the dl carriers which are part of such an association can carry pdcch , then it would not be necessary to use any additional signaling such as a carrier indicator to signal ul grants on any of the ul carriers ; or the number of dl carriers is less than the number of ul carriers . in this case , signaling ul grants on at least some of the carriers would require some additional signaling mechanism . several solutions inferring additional signalling have been searched by the applicants : this would allow more scheduling flexibility even in the case of symmetric ul / d1 carriers this would introduce a new dci format this would reduce the available id space to check the additional id ( s ), more blind decodings would be needed ( but not more than the upper limit for case ( 1 )) in all the above cases , the search space would need to be sufficiently large to accommodate additional pdcch ( s ), since pdcchs for more than one ul grant could need to be present on the same dl carrier . it seems likely that some ue - specific configuration ( probably semi - static ) would be needed to explicitly link ul carriers to dl carriers . in accordance with a current definition of the invention , its first embodiment is based on the recognition that the carrier to which the ul grant or dl resource allocation applies may be indicated by the pdcch location within the search space . the first embodiment comprises a system like lte , but with multiple carriers . to save processing power , each user equipment monitors only a limited set of pdcch locations on a given carrier ( as a function of ue id , subframe number , size of message , and amount of resource available for control channel signalling ). on one carrier ( the anchor carrier , carrier 0 ), with message size ( aggregation level ) is 1 , the pdcch search space size is 6 and the number of ul carriers is 5 and the number of dl carriers is also 5 . as an example , the relationship between pdcch location ( within the search space for that ue ) and the particular carrier could be indicated as in the table below . the position of the pdcch in a search space can be defined as the resource used within a search space . the space can be defined along at least two dimensions , like the components on a first axis , and the timeslots on a second axis . it is to be noted that some other parameters could be taken into account like the cell , if the invention is implemented in a multi cell co - operative system . in such a system , a plurality of antenna ports belonging to different cells are used simultaneously and in a cooperative manner . depending on the timeslot and / or the carrier ( or other parameters ) used for the transmission of the allocation grant , the secondary station can deduce an information on the resouce allocated , like a position in the resource sets , i . e . a carrier , or a timeslots or likewise . the mapping between location and carrier could be configured by the network . as an example , to provide more scheduling flexibility on the anchor carrier ( carrier 0 ), not all carriers could be indicated by pdcch on the anchor carrier . for example : a second embodiment is like the first embodiment but has more component carriers in the ul ( e . g ., 5 ) and fewer in the dl ( e . g . 2 ). in this case the mapping could be as follows on the additional carrier ( carrier 1 ). a third embodiment is like the first embodiment but with reduced pdcch search space on the additional component carriers ( i . e . non anchor carriers ). here the carrier is indicated as an offset with respect to the carrier on which the pdcch appears . the table refers to non - anchor carriers ( except for the last anchor carrier ) note that the mapping can be configured so that ul and dl resources can be indicated on matching carriers in the same subframe . in one case this would be the same carrier as that carrying the pdcch ( and corresponding ul ). in the other case this would be the next carrier . a fourth embodiment is like the second embodiment , but with 5 carriers in ul and 3 carriers in dl . the search space on the non - anchor carriers is modified compared with the search space on the anchor carrier ( carrier 0 ) but more blind decodings per carrier are allowed than in the third embodiment . for example on one additional carrier ( carrier 1 ) we could have : a fifth embodiment is like the third embodiment but where in order to give more flexibility the mapping between pdcch position and carrier depends on the aggregation level . for aggregation level 1 we could have part of the configuration of the mapping between pddch location may be fixed in the specification , for example as a default mapping in case no other mapping is signalled by higher layers . note that the pdcch positions in the tables above are within the search space for a particular ue , which in general is located within a larger set of possible pddch locations the invention may also be applied to indicate that the resources signalled in a pdcch refer to another cell ( which may or may not have the same carrier frequency as the carrier on which the pdcch is transmitted ). as an example of an embodiment for this case , a system like lte is configured so that the ue may receive one or more pdcch from a serving cell ( cell 0 ) and such pdcch may also indicate resources in another cell ( cell 1 ). in the table the entries are arranged so that it is easy to signal an ul and dl resource in the same cell at the same time . in addition it would be possible , for example , for two pdcchs to be transmitted indicating that the ue should receive pdsch transmissions from both cells 0 and 1 at the same time . the invention may be applicable to mobile telecommunication systems like umts lte and umts lte - advanced . in the present specification and claims the word “ a ” or “ an ” preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements . further , the word “ comprising ” does not exclude the presence of other elements or steps than those listed . the inclusion of reference signs in parentheses in the claims is intended to aid understanding and is not intended to be limiting . from reading the present disclosure , other modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art . such modifications may involve other features which are already known in the art of radio communication .