Patent ID: 8797836

Claim:
A method for allocating a downlink OFDM resource space, the method comprising: transmitting a channel descriptor management message, the channel descriptor management message providing a format for a transmission unit, the transmission unit including an OFDM resource space, said channel descriptor management message providing a definition for a plurality of sub-resource spaces within the OFDM resource space, each sub-resource space having an associated sub-resource space identifier and being individually allocatable; and transmitting a transmission unit, the transmission unit comprising: for each of at least one receiver, a respective sub-burst within at least one of the plurality of sub-resource spaces within the OFDM resource space; and a downlink mapping component that includes information for each receiver indicating where the respective sub-burst for the receiver is located in the OFDM resource space, wherein the information for each receiver associates the sub-resource space identifier that is associated with the sub-resource space in which the receiver's sub-burst is located with a connection identifier that the receiver looks for.