Patent ID: 8594689

Claim:
An operating method of a base station in a wireless communication system supporting a frequency overlay scheme, the method comprising: allocating relative addresses to Resource Blocks (RBs) in operating Frequency Assignments (FAs) of a terminal according to an addressing scheme for the terminal, wherein the addressing scheme is determined based on a number of operating FAs of the terminal; generating at least one resource indicator represented with the relative addresses; generating resource allocation information which comprises the at least one resource indicator; and transmitting the resource allocation information through a primary FA of the terminal, wherein the allocating of the relative addresses comprises: constituting as many FA pairs as a quotient produced by dividing a number of the operating FAs of the terminal by two, wherein each of the FA pairs is a unit of which relative addresses are uniquely allocated; allocating consecutive relative addresses to the RBs in each FA pair, the relative addresses independent of each other with respect to each FA pair; and when the number of the operating FAs of the terminal is odd, allocating independent relative addresses to RBs in one of the FAs which is not constituted into the FA pair.