Patent ID: 8406182

Claim:
A method comprising: providing an enhanced allocation of bandwidth for a radio resource comprising an uplink radio resource; and allocating the radio resource using the enhanced allocation of bandwidth such a predetermined at least one resource block of the radio resource is one of left unused or blanked, where the uplink radio resource comprises a periodic channel quality indicator resource, and where allocating comprises a pre-determined at least one resource block of the periodic channel quality indicator resource is one of left unused or blanked, where the periodic channel quality indicator resource comprises at least one of a physical uplink control channel format of a second type, where the providing the enhanced allocation of bandwidth comprises selecting parameters N RB (2) and N cs (1) such that N RB (2) N sc RB +(N sc RB −N cs (1) −2)>>(a number of simultaneous resources allocated to the at least one of the physical uplink control channel format of the second type), where the number of simultaneous resources allocated to the at least one of the physical uplink control channel format of the second type is equal to n PUCCH (2) , where n PUCCH (2) is a resource index for resources used for the physical uplink control channel formats of the second type, where N sc RB equals a resource block size in a frequency domain, expressed as a number of subcarriers, where N RB (2) is a bandwidth reserved for the physical uplink control channel formats of the second type, expressed in multiples of N sc RB , where N cs (1) is a number of cyclic shifts used for at least one of a physical uplink control channel format of a first type in a mixed resource block, and where n PUCCH (2) is a resource index for resources used for physical uplink control channel formats of the second type.