Patent ID: 9673932
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H03M,H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of communicating with a subscriber station comprising: allocating a first set of transmission resources to be used as a first uplink control transmission resource to receive a first uplink control signal, the first uplink control transmission resource being shared by the subscriber station with a plurality of remote subscriber stations; allocating a second set of transmission resources to be used as a second uplink control transmission resource to receive a second uplink control signal, the second uplink control transmission resource being an uplink control channel to be used by the subscriber station, wherein the second uplink control transmission resource is reserved for block code encoded transmissions; communicating to the subscriber station the allocations of the first set of transmission resources and the second set of transmission resources; receiving a third uplink control signal on a third set of transmission resources from the subscriber station, wherein the third set of transmission resources is received with data traffic and the third uplink control signal is encoded using a convolutional code.