Patent ID: 8599974

Claim:
A method of determining a set of Zero Correlation Zone, ZCZ, lengths of a mobile communication system, comprising: selecting, by an appatatus of the mobile communication system, a set of cyclic shift increments N CS (k), the set of cycle shift increments N CS (k) comprising one cyclic shift increments N CS =0; determining by the apparatus, a set of ZCZ lengths by decreasing each non-zero cyclic shift increment of the set of cyclic shift increments N CS (k) by 1, non-zero cyclic shift increments of the set of cyclic shift increments N CS (k) being generated in accordance with the following formula: N CS ( k )=└ N ZC /[N pre (0)× a k +a/ (1 −a )×( a k −1)]┘, k= 0, 1, 2 . . . 14; where a=0.856, N pre (0)=64 and N ZC =839.