Patent ID: 8705655

Claim:
A method for transmitting a block of symbols using a plurality of physical resource blocks of a radio channel in a mobile communication system, the block of symbols comprising data symbols which include original data symbols and repeated data symbols and at least one control symbol, each repeated data symbol corresponding to an original data symbol, the physical resource block being specified by at least one of transmission slot, subband frequency, code and radiation pattern, the method comprising the steps of: subdividing the data symbols into a plurality of groups, each group including a first portion of the original data symbols and a second portion of the corresponding repeated data symbols; mapping the data symbols of each portion of a group into different physical resource blocks; and mapping the at least one control symbol into the same physical resource block as the first portion of the original data symbols of one of the plurality of groups; wherein the number of data symbols in said group is determined based on the number of said at least one control symbol.