Patent ID: 9629155
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a wireless interface; and a processing element coupled to the wireless interface, wherein the processing element is configured to: receive a plurality of resource blocks within orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols using an OFDM band, wherein each of the plurality of resource blocks comprises a respective set of sub-carriers; wherein the OFDM symbols collectively contain diversity channels and sub-band channels, wherein each of the diversity channels utilizes a distributed set of resource blocks within the OFDM band, and wherein each of the sub-band channels utilizes a contiguous set of resource blocks within the OFDM band; and wherein at least one of the OFDM symbols simultaneously includes one or more resource blocks utilized by one of the sub-band channels and one or more resource blocks utilized by one of the diversity channels.