Patent ID: 8259664
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. For use in a wireless communication network, a base station capable of communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations, the base station configured to allocate a plurality of resource units to at least one subscriber station, the base station comprising: a controller configured to allocate a plurality of resource units from a two-dimensional logical matrix of resource units, wherein the controller is configured to generate at least two indicator values, the at least two indicator values configured to identify the allocated resource units; and a transmitter configured to transmit the at least two indicators to the at least one of the plurality of subscriber stations, wherein the controller is configured to construct a first resource tree along a first dimension of the logical matrix and a second resource tree along a second dimension of the logical matrix, each of the resource trees comprising a plurality of nodes, and wherein the at least two indicator values comprise at least one node from the first resource tree and at least one node from the second resource tree.