Patent ID: 8259602

Claim:
A method of transmitting an acknowledgment (ACK)/non-acknowledgment (NACK) signal at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving from a base station (BS) information regarding N cs (1) , N RB (2) and Δ shift PUCCH , N cs (1) indicating a number of cyclic shift indexes (CSIs) used for (2 transmission of the ACK/NACK signal in a mixed resource block, N RB (2) indicating a number of resource blocks available for transmission of a channel quality indicator (CQI), and Δ shift PUCCH indicating a cyclic shift (CS) interval; determining a first resource index n PUCCH (1) that identifies resources used for transmission of the ACK/NACK signal; determining a second resource index n PUCCH (2) that identifies resources used for transmission of the CQI; determining an orthogonal sequence index (OSI) and a CSI to be used for transmitting the ACK/NACK signal based on N cs (1) , Δ shift PUCCH and n PUCCH (1) ; and transmitting the ACK/NACK signal to the BS using the determined OSI and CSI, wherein N cs (1) is an integer multiple of Δ shift PUCCH , wherein the ACK/NACK signal and the CQI are transmitted in the mixed resource block by one or more UEs, and wherein n PUCCH (2) is determined such that n PUCCH ( 2 ) < N RB ( 2 ) ⁢ N = ⌈ N cs ( 1 ) 8 ⌉ · ( N - N cs ( 1 ) - 2 ) , N denoting a number of subcarriers included in one resource block.