Patent ID: 8305977

Claim:
An operating method of a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: detecting a collision between fixed allocation resources; relocating one of the fixed allocation resources; generating a resource relocation Information Element (IE) indicative of the resource relocation using at least one offset of at least one Resource Block (RB); and transmitting the resource relocation IE, wherein the resource relocation IE comprises a first parameter indicative of a location of the relocated resource using the offset of the RB, a second parameter indicative of a location after the relocation using the offset of the RB, and a third parameter indicative of a fixed allocation to be relocated. wherein determining of whether to relocate the at least one persistently allocated resource comprises: determining whether there are consecutive empty resource regions large enough in a size for a new allocation; and when there are no consecutive empty resource regions large enough in size for the new allocation, determining to relocate the at least one persistently allocated resource.