Patent ID: 8400998

Claim:
A method in a wireless communication scheduling entity, the method comprising: allocating a first radio resource comprising at least one time-frequency resource block, the at least one time-frequency resource block of the first radio resource having a first size, a duration of the at least one time-frequency resource block of the first radio resource corresponding to a duration of at least one sub-frame; and allocating a second radio resource comprising at least one time-frequency resource block, the at least one time-frequency resource block of the second radio resource having a second size, the second size different than the first size, a duration of the at least one time-frequency resource block of the second radio resource corresponding to at least the duration of the at least one sub-frame, the at least one sub-frame constitutes part of a transmit time interval, the first and second radio resources are allocated for use by at least one wireless communication terminal during the transmit time interval.