Patent ID: 9642143
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A device, comprising, a receiver, which, in operation, receives assignment information indicating resource blocks, each of which being formed of consecutive subcarriers in a frequency domain, allocated to the device according to one of a plurality of resource allocations including: a resource allocation allocating Distributed Virtual Resource Blocks (DVRBs), where a pair of DVRBs assigned with a single resource block number are mapped to Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) with a variable gap in the frequency domain, the variable gap is an integer multiple of an applicable Resource Block Group (RBG) size defined as a number of one or more consecutive resource blocks forming one RBG, and the variable gap is dependent on both an applicable system bandwidth and the applicable RBG size; and a resource allocation allocating one or more RBGs; and circuitry, which, in operation, decodes data based on the assignment information.