Patent ID: 8693444

Claim:
An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to perform operations comprising: determining available transmission units for use by a control channel from among transmission units associated with a control segment during which the control channel is sent, wherein the control segment includes a plurality of tiles; forming L sets of S control resources of a plurality of control resources, wherein L is a first positive integer equal to one or greater, and wherein S is a second positive integer, wherein the plurality of control resources includes a first control resource and a second control resource; determining a set of transmission units from among the available transmission units, wherein each transmission unit in the set of transmission units corresponds to a distinct hop-port, wherein the set of transmission units includes a first transmission unit and a second transmission unit; mapping, during the control segment, each set of the L sets of S control resources to the set of transmission units across the plurality of tiles based on a transmission unit index h, wherein the transmission unit index h is computed based on a control resource index R; allocating the first control resource to a first control channel by mapping, according to a localized mapping scheme, the first control resource to the first transmission unit; and allocating the second control resource to a second control channel by mapping according to a mapping scheme other than the localized mapping scheme, the second control resource to the second transmission unit, wherein the first control resource is allocated to the first control channel prior to the second control resource being allocated to the second control channel.