Patent ID: 8233445
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: configuring a bitmap to indicate whether radio resources are allocated to respective Access Terminals (ATs) according to resource scheduling; generating a resource allocation message comprising at least one of the configured bitmap, bit allocation information of the bitmap, and bit deallocation information of the bitmap; and transmitting the resource allocation message, wherein the resource allocation message comprises at least one of a message sequence number for indicating whether the bitmap has changed, a start position of radio resource allocation, an AT IDentifier (ID), a New Bit Allocation Sequence (NBAS) for indicating bitmap reconfiguration, a start index for calculating a bit position of a new bitmap, and a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level.