Patent ID: 8559377

Claim:
A method for providing a plurality of users with a plurality of defined multiple access techniques in a multiple access mobile communication system with multiple transmission antennas, the mobile communication system utilizing discrete-tone symbols for transmission of signals, the method comprising: determining requirements of the plurality of users; assigning each of the plurality of users to at least one of the plurality of defined multiple access techniques; grouping the discrete-tone symbols of a transmission frame into at least two groups according to the plurality of defined multiple access techniques; partitioning a group of the discrete-tone symbols among the plurality of users according to the at least one of the plurality of defined multiple access techniques to which each of the plurality of users is assigned, wherein each of the discrete-tone symbols is a resource defined by three dimensions including a time domain, a frequency domain, and an antenna domain; assigning each of the plurality of defined multiple access techniques to specific partitioned resources of the at least two groups, wherein partitioning the group of the discrete-tone symbols comprises allocating the specific partitioned resources of the at least two groups to the plurality of users, wherein partitioning the group of the discrete-tone symbols is performed according to requirements of each of the plurality of users, the requirements including at least power requirements, voice communication rate requirements, a number of the multiple transmission antennas, a latency requirement, traffic quality of service (QoS) requirements, or channel conditions, wherein, in each time slot of the transmission frame, the discrete-tone symbols of a first group of the at least two groups are distinguished from the discrete-tone symbols of a second group of the at least two groups in the frequency domain and the discrete-tone symbols of the first group are not distinguished from the discrete-tone symbols of the second group in the time domain, and wherein assigning each of the plurality of defined multiple access techniques to specific partitioned resources of the at least two groups includes: assigning a first access technique to a first resource defined by a first time domain resource, a first frequency domain resource and a first antenna domain resource; and assigning a second access technique to a second resource defined by the first time domain resource, the first frequency domain resource and a second antenna domain resource.