Patent ID: 8605569

Claim:
A method of tessellating a subframe using maximal-sized bricks, each brick comprising a brick bandwidth (r) in units of subcarriers or physical subchannels, and a brick time duration (c) in units of symbols, the subframe comprising a plurality of (n B ) bursts having burst heights (β H,k , k=0, . . . , n B −1) in units of subcarriers or physical subchannels and burst widths (β W,k , k=0, . . . , n B −1) in units of symbols, the method comprising: computing, using a processor, r and c using equations r=GCD(β H,0 , β H,1 , . . . β H,nB −1 ) and c=GCD (β W,0 , βW,1 , . . . , (β W,nB −1 ), wherein n B , is an integer value, k is an integer value, β H,k denotes a set of k burst heights, β W,k , denotes a set of k burst widths, GCD denotes the greatest common divisor, and neither r nor c is equal to one; and referencing bursts within the subframe using a brick-based coordinate system in which burst location and size are specified in units of bricks.