Patent ID: 8208436
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile station comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive data transmitted using Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs), each PRB being comprised of a plurality of subcarriers, to which Distributed Virtual Resource Blocks (DVRBs) with consecutive numbers are mapped while the DVRBs' numbers are interleaved, and to receive allocation information indicating the DVRBs with consecutive numbers that are allocated to the mobile station; and a decoder configured to decode said data based on said allocation information, wherein the DVRBs' numbers are written row by row and read out column by column in 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, two of the DVRBs, the numbers of which are written in the same row of the first and third columns of the block interleaver, are mapped to the PRBs in the same frequency within a subframe, and two of the DVRBs, the numbers of which are written in the same row of the second and fourth columns of the block interleaver, are mapped to the PRBs in the same frequency within a subframe.