Patent ID: 8040912

Claim:
A multicarrier communication apparatus comprising: a quality calculation section that calculates quality values of a plurality of resource blocks; a channel quality indicator (CQI) selection section that selects one CQI group from among a plurality of CQI groups in which a plurality of CQIs are included, and selects a CQ 1 corresponding to each of the plurality of resource blocks from among the plurality of CQIs included in the selected CQI group, the CQI selection being made according to each of the calculated quality values of the plurality of resource blocks; and a CQI generation section that generates a signal including CQI group information on the selected CQI group and CQI information on the selected CQI corresponding to each of the plurality of resource blocks, wherein one or more CQIs included in the selected CQI group are included in another CQI group.