Patent ID: 8140084

Claim:
A method for allocating a Channel Quality Information CHannel (CQICH) of a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining, by a controller, CQICH patterns required for each user using information of one or more users to which CQICH resources are to be allocated, and selecting a CQICH pattern block including all of the determined CQICH patterns among a plurality of pre-generated CQICH pattern blocks; and allocating CQICH sub-blocks corresponding to the CQICH patterns required for each user using resource layout information of the CQICH sub-blocks corresponding to the CQICH patterns of the selected CQICH pattern block, and transmitting CQICH allocation information to a Mobile Station (MS), wherein the CQICH pattern includes a pattern formed using both a CQICH resource allocation period required for a user and a number of CQICH resources required for one allocation.