Patent ID: 8331307
Filing Date: 2012-12-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of physical resource management in a wideband communication system, the wideband communication system including a base station for transmitting on a plurality of physical sub-carriers occupying a predetermined transmission bandwidth and a plurality of mobile terminals (MT) each having different maximum reception bandwidths within the predetermined transmission bandwidth and camping on, the method being performed in the base station and including: identifying a smallest maximum reception bandwidth, within the predetermined transmission bandwidth, amongst the plurality of MT; determining a plurality of blocks of consecutive sub-carriers from the predetermined transmission bandwidth and the smallest maximum reception bandwidth, the consecutive sub carriers being defined by the smallest maximum reception bandwidth amongst the plurality of MT; and mapping a Shared Control Channel (SCCH) for each MT so that physical channel symbols from Physical Shared Control Channels (PSCCH) corresponding to the SCCH are confined to a block size of one of the plurality of blocks of the consecutive sub-carriers defined by the smallest maximum reception bandwidth amongst the plurality of MT, wherein physical sub-carriers of the SCCH have positions that are made to correspond to positions of physical sub-carriers of the PSCCH.