Patent ID: 8089858

Claim:
A transmitting apparatus for transmitting signals in a multi carrier system on the basis of a frame structure, said transmitting apparatus comprising: a frame former that forms frames of said frame structure, each frame comprising at least two signalling patterns adjacent to each other in the frequency direction and at least one data pattern following the at least two signalling patterns in the time direction in the time slot immediately succeeding the time slot in which the at least two signalling patterns are located, wherein each of the data patterns succeeding the at least two signalling patterns is respectively followed by further data patterns in succeeding time slots in the time direction, wherein all data patterns following each other in the time direction have a same frequency direction structure, each of the at least two signalling patterns and the data patterns comprising a plurality of frequency carriers, that arranges signalling data and pilot signals in each of said at least two signalling patterns in each frame, each signalling pattern having the same length, wherein all signalling patterns in the frame comprise the identical signalling data, and that arranges data in said data patterns in each frame; a transformer that transforms said signalling patterns and said data patterns from the frequency domain into the time domain in order to generate a time domain transmission signal; and a transmitter that transmits said time domain transmission signal.