Patent ID: 8737288

Claim:
A wireless communication apparatus which performs wireless communication with a terminal equipment via a relay station, the wireless communication apparatus comprising: an allocator which is adapted to allocate CCEs in which control signals for the relay station are arranged to a plurality of REGs so that unused REGs not allocated with the CCEs differ among respective resource blocks each having the plurality of REGs, and so that an index of REG for starting an allocation of the CCEs is cyclically shifted at each of the resource blocks, wherein an amount of shift for cyclically shifting the unused REGs is determined in the allocator so as to be a numerical value which is obtained by multiplying a number of the unused REGs by a remainder that is obtained by dividing a No. of the resource block by the number of the REGs of one resource block; and a transmitter which is adapted to transmit the control signal arranged in the CCEs allocated to the REGs to the relay station in accordance with the allocation by the allocator.