Patent ID: 8204017
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A base station comprising: an interleaving unit configured to interleave consecutive Distributed Virtual Resource Block (DVRB) numbers and to map DVRBs, the numbers of which being interleaved, to Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs), each PRB being comprised of a plurality of subcarriers; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit data using the PRBs; wherein said interleaving unit includes a block interleaver with 4 columns where nulls, the number of which is a difference between the block interleaver size and the total number of the DVRBs, are inserted in the same row of the second and fourth columns of the block interleaver, and the DVRB numbers are written row by row and read out column by column, and said interleaving unit maps two of the DVRBs, the numbers of which are written in the same row of the first and third columns of the block interleaver, to the PRBs in the same frequency within a subframe, and maps two of the DVRBs, the numbers of which are written in the same row of the second and fourth columns of the block interleaver, to the PRBs in the same frequency within a subframe.