Patent ID: 8254335

Claim:
A mobile device for receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, the mobile device comprising: a reception section configured to receive information of a number from a base station, the information of the number corresponding to subcarrier blocks to be used for averaging channel quality, each of the subcarrier blocks including a plurality of subcarriers; a subcarrier block selection section configured to select subcarrier blocks corresponding to the information of the number and providing preferred channel quality, within a communication band to be used for transmission from the base station to the mobile device, wherein said number is less than the total number of subcarrier blocks within the communication band; a CQI generating section configured to generate one channel quality indicator (CQI), the generated CQI being a value representing an average channel quality across only the selected subcarrier blocks; and a reporting section configured to transmit a signal, to the base station, the signal including the generated CQI and information indicating positions of the selected subcarrier blocks selected by the subcarrier block selection section, wherein the information of the number received from the base station does not indicate positions of the subcarrier blocks to be selected.