Patent ID: 8169928

Claim:
A base station that divides a system bandwidth into M blocks and allocates data to be transmitted to a mobile station for the divided blocks, the base station comprising: a unit that sets, for each mobile station, the number N of the blocks for which the mobile station reports channel quality information among the M blocks such that the number N increases as an amount of data of the mobile station increases, wherein M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2 and N is a positive integer; a control information generation portion that generates control information for reporting the number N of the blocks to the mobile station; a channel quality information receiving unit for receiving, from the mobile station, N channel quality information pieces, and an average value of channel quality information pieces other than the N channel quality information pieces; and a scheduling unit which allocates a radio resource to the mobile station using the N channel quality information pieces, and the average value of channel quality information pieces other than the N channel quality information pieces.