Patent ID: 8780827

Claim:
A method for allocating a resource of a Base Station (BS) in a multi-carrier system, the method comprising: sorting all Mobile Stations (MSs) that participate in scheduling for each frequency domain resource block in a descending order according to priority; selecting an MS including a top priority for a frequency domain resource block as a first best MS among MSs each of which includes a top priority for a respectively corresponding frequency domain resource block; allocating the corresponding frequency domain resource block to the selected first best MS; and additionally allocating another corresponding resource block, adjacent to the allocated resource block and among resource blocks not yet allocated, to the first best MS if the first best MS falls within a priority window preset in the another corresponding resource block which is an adjacent resource block located in directions at least one of decreasing and increasing a resource block index in the frequency domain with respect to the allocated resource block, wherein the priority window includes a specific number of at least two MSs in the descending order according to priority, where the specific number is based on the priority window size.