Patent ID: 8305974

Claim:
A method comprising: determining that M physical resource blocks are allocated for localized resource allocation and N minus M physical resource blocks are allocated for distributed resource allocation, in which each physical resource block comprises U subcarriers and where N and U are each integers greater than one and M is an integer at least equal to one; permuting the subcarriers of the N physical resource blocks to result in N subchannels; serially for each m th one of the M physical resource blocks allocated for localized resource allocation: puncturing from the permuted subchannels the subcarriers for an m th one of the M physical resource blocks allocated for localized resource allocation; after puncturing, filling subcarriers of one of the subchannels with subcarriers of all other subchannels which were punctured in the m th one of the M physical resource blocks, so as to result, after all M physical resource blocks are punctured and filled, in N minus M physical resource blocks each having U subcarriers and M physical resource blocks each having U subcarriers; and communicating wirelessly using at least one of: localized resource allocation on the resulting M physical resource blocks, and distributed resource allocation on the resulting N minus M physical resource blocks.