Patent ID: 8270504

Claim:
A method of transmitting signals, the method comprising: segmenting information bits by a basic resource block unit to produce a plurality of basic resource block units; mapping each of the information bits, for each of the plurality of basic resource block units, to a respective basic resource block; and mapping information bits of some of the plurality of the basic resource block units according to a localized resource allocation and mapping information bits of other ones of the plurality of the basic resource block units according to a distributed resource allocation, transmitting the mapped information bits as a transmission signal, wherein the basic resource block unit comprises “S” consecutive OFDMA symbols corresponding to 1 subframe length in a time domain and “N” consecutive subcarriers in a frequency domain, wherein the localized resource allocation is defined by allocating the information bits of one basic resource block unit of the plurality of resource block units sequentially over adjacent subcarriers of the “N” consecutive subcarriers, wherein the distributed resource allocation is defined by allocating the information bits of one basic resource block unit of the plurality of resource block units non-sequentially over adjacent subcarriers of the “N” consecutive subcarriers; wherein “N” is equal to either 18 or 9, and wherein “S” is a natural number.