Patent ID: 7746938

Claim:
A pilot multiplexing method in an OFDM apparatus for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and transmitting transmit data and pilots, in which, when m (where m is an integer of one or greater) adjacent subcarriers are adopted as a set, m subcarrier components of each set in n pilot symbols are multiplied by orthogonal codes of which length is m×n and the pilot symbols are transmitted, comprising: generating orthogonal codes of each set in such a manner that the orthogonal codes will be orthogonal in a time direction in regard to m subcarriers of each set in n pilot symbols and orthogonal in a subcarrier direction in regard to n subcarriers of m adjacent pilot symbols; first multiplying the m subcarrier components of each set in the time direction by the orthogonal codes of the set; shifting base-station identification codes by more than L/m (where L is orthogonal-code length) in the subcarrier direction on a per-OFDM-symbol basis; second multiplying the results of said first multiplication of each subcarrier by said base-station identification codes; and subjecting the results of said second multiplication in each subcarrier to IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) and transmitting the results.