Patent ID: 7706346

Claim:
A method for controlling transmissions between a mobile station and a base station, the method comprising: forming, in a wireless communication device, a frame having a plurality of slots therein within which to transmit information including physical layer signaling, control signaling, and user data: partitioning, in the wireless communication device, the frame into a first portion of the plurality of slots and a second portion of the plurality of slots; allocating, in the wireless communication device, said physical layer signaling and said control signaling to the first portion of the plurality of slots; allocating, in the wireless communication device, said user data to the second portion of the plurality of slots; and transmitting, from the wireless communication device, the frame of information using code division multiple access (CDMA) in the first portion of the plurality of slots and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in the second portion of the plurality of slots, wherein using CDMA for at least one of physical layer signaling and control further comprises the physical layer signaling including at least one of pilot, channel quality feedback and ACK/NACK.