Patent ID: 8675596
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for resource reservation in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: providing, by a base station, a plurality of physical resource units (PRUs); reserving, by the base station, a reserved region greater than or equal to a frequency band size of a subband which is a unit of contiguous PRUs in a frequency domain among the plurality of PRUs; and partitioning, by the base station, the remaining PRUs other than the reserved region into a subband that is a unit of contiguous PRUs in the frequency domain and a miniband that is a unit of distributed PRUs in the frequency domain, wherein each PRU comprises a plurality of contiguous subcarriers in the frequency domain, and wherein the reserved region is pre-partitioned in the plurality of PRUs and then an index is assigned to the reserved region according to a location and order by which the reserved region is used.