Patent ID: 8023466

Claim:
A subscriber station in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) system comprising: a) receive circuitry adapted to receive and downconvert a plurality of OFDM signals, said plurality of OFDM symbols comprising a first plurality of subcarriers, said plurality of subcarriers being defined in a soft handoff zone comprising a first dimension of subchannels, said subchannels comprising said first plurality of subcarriers; and a second dimension of divided and multiplexed OFDM symbols; said first plurality of subcarriers in said soft handoff zone having a subchannel definition; b) Fourier Transform (FT) logic adapted to provide an FT on each of said first plurality of subcarriers to generate a plurality of division-multiplexing coded signals; and c) decoder logic adapted to provide division-multiplexing decoding on the plurality of divided-multiplexed coded signals to recover data from a base station.