Patent ID: 9036595
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A transmitting apparatus comprising: a mapping section which, in operation, maps either a first block, to which data indicated by a single resource index are localizedly allocated, or each of a plurality of second blocks, to which data indicated by the single resource index are distributedly allocated, to each of a plurality of blocks, into which a plurality of consecutive subcarriers in a frequency domain and a subframe are divided and each of which is comprised of the same number of subcarriers; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the data, wherein the plurality of second blocks, to which the data indicated by the single resource index are allocated, are mapped to the plurality of blocks with a predetermined gap such that the data indicated by the single resource index are distributed in the frequency domain, and a resource size for the data indicated by the single resource index in the plurality of second blocks is constant regardless of variation of the predetermined gap, and wherein a plurality of data sets indicated by different resource indices are multiplexed in the plurality of second blocks, and a number of the plurality of second blocks used to transmit one of the data sets indicated by the single resource index in the subframe is the same as a number of the plurality of data sets multiplexed in one of the plurality of second blocks.