Patent ID: 8520656

Claim:
A method for allocating, at a base station, frequency resources for transmission of control signals and data signals in an uplink over an operating bandwidth in a communication system, the control signals including first type control signals and second type control signals, wherein a first set of user equipments use first frequency resources for transmission of the first type control signals, a second set of user equipments use second frequency resources for transmission of the second type control signals, and a third set of user equipments use third frequency resources for transmission of the data signals, the method comprising: placing the second frequency resources between the first frequency resources and the third frequency resources on each side of the operating bandwidth; and placing the third frequency resources between the second frequency resources, wherein the first type control signals are Channel Quality Indication (COI) signals having periodic transmissions, and the second type control signals are acknowledgement signals being transmitted in response to transmission of downlink data signals.