Patent ID: 8787140

Claim:
A transmitting apparatus for transmitting signals in a multi-carrier system on the basis of a frame structure, said transmitting apparatus comprising: a frame former configured to form frames of said frame structure, each frame comprising at least two signaling patterns adjacent to each other in a frequency direction and one or more first data patterns following the at least two signaling patterns in a time direction in a time slot immediately succeeding a time slot in which the at least two signaling patterns are located, wherein each of the one or more first data patterns succeeding the at least two signaling patterns is respectively followed by second data patterns in succeeding time slots in the time direction, wherein all data patterns following each other in the time direction have a same frequency direction structure, each of the at least two signaling patterns and the one or more first data patterns comprising a plurality of frequency carriers, to arrange signaling data in each of said at least two signaling patterns in a frame, said signaling data comprising a tuning position of each of the data patterns in the frame, and to arrange data and at least one pilot signal in said one or more first data patterns in the frame; a transformer configured to transform said at least two signaling patterns and said one or more first data patterns from the frequency domain into the time domain to generate a time domain transmission signal; and a transmitter configured to transmit said time domain transmission signal.