Patent ID: 8472304

Claim:
A method for allocating bandwidth to channels in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access and time division multiple access (TDMA) network, wherein the network includes a master device (master) communicating with a set of slave devices (slaves), wherein the master performs steps of the method, comprising the steps of: defining a set Ψ m of logical indices ν of a set of N physical subcarriers for a set of M data streams to be allocated to a set of N d logical data subcarriers according to Ψ m ={ν|ν=iM+m, i= 0,1,2, . . . , d− 1}, where d=N d /M, and m=0,1,2, . . . , M 1; mapping the set of N physical subcarriers to the set of N d logical subcarriers according to the logical indices; and allocating the data subcarriers to the logical subcarriers.