Patent ID: 8830940

Claim:
A wireless communication apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive resource allocation information indicating a group to which resource is allocated, out of a plurality of groups that are obtained by dividing a system band based on a unit of a determined number of resource blocks; a setting section configured to set, in a case where a number of reported resource blocks reported by the resource allocation information cannot be expressed by “2 n ×3 m ×5 l ” (n, m, and l are an integer equal to or more than 0), a number of allocated resource blocks that is used for an actual transmission band and corresponds to the number of reported resource blocks, to a number of resource blocks that can be expressed by any of “2 n ×3 m ×5 l ”; and a selector configured to select an unused resource block that is not used for the transmission band in the reported resource blocks, or select an added resource block that is added to the reported resource blocks and is used for the transmission band, on a basis of the resource allocation information and the number of allocated resource blocks.