Patent ID: 8073062

Claim:
A method for resource allocation in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system comprising: scheduling at least one user equipment for a localized transmission and at least one user equipment for a distributed transmission; assigning one or more downlink Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) of a plurality of downlink PRBs to each user equipment scheduled for a localized transmission to produce at least one localized transmission Physical Resource Block (PRB) and a plurality of non-localized transmission PRBs; dividing the plurality of non-localized transmission Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) into a plurality of groups of PRBs based on a number of distributed virtual resource blocks (DVRBs) being greater than a number of parts that a distributed virtual resource block (DVRB) can be sub-divided into; and assigning a part of each PRB within one or more of the plurality groups of PRBs of the plurality of non-localized transmission PRBs to a user equipment scheduled for a distributed transmission, wherein one or more of the at least one localized transmission PRBs are pre-reserved for localized transmission and one or more of the plurality of non-localized transmission PRBs are pre-reserved for distributed transmissions.