Patent ID: 7639639

Claim:
A method for relaying information received via a first channel to a second channel in a relay apparatus, the first channel having a first subcarrier at the first frequency and having assigned a block of information including a plurality of information units, wherein the first channel has an additional subcarrier at an additional frequency, the additional subcarrier having assigned an additional block of information, a transmission property for the first channel at the first frequency being better than a transmission property for the first channel at the additional frequency, the second channel having a first subcarrier at the first frequency and a second subcarrier at a second frequency, a transmission property for the second channel at the first frequency being worse than a transmission property for the second channel at the second frequency, the method comprising: assigning the block of information from the first subcarrier of the first channel having the better transmission property in the first channel, to the second subcarrier of the second channel; and assigning the additional block of information being assigned to the additional subcarrier of the first channel to the first subcarrier of the second channel.