Patent ID: 8761032

Claim:
A method that facilitates communicating control information in wireless networks, comprising: receiving, at a communications apparatus, control information from a transmitting apparatus, the control information being received over one or more tiles that are a portion of a reserved control segment that is dedicated for transmitting the control information, wherein a tile comprises a set of tones that includes at least one pilot signal and the control information is multiplexed over a plurality of tiles to thereby increase the probability that at least a portion of the tiles are not interfered; determining, at the communications apparatus, respective levels of interference affecting respective transmissions on the one or more tiles, wherein the respective level of interference affecting transmission on a tile is determined based at least in part on interference affecting transmission of the at least one pilot signal included in the tile; and weighting, at the communications apparatus, the tiles for channel estimation for subsequent data decoding with a low probability of interference based at least in part on the respective levels of interference, wherein assignment of respective weights is dependent on the respectively associated levels of interference, such that the higher the level of interference, the lower the associated weight and vice versa, and such that a first tile is given less weight for the channel estimation than a second tile if the first tile has a higher level of interference than the second tile.