Patent ID: 8787141

Claim:
A transmitting apparatus for transmitting signals in a multi-carrier system on the basis of a frame structure, said transmitting apparatus comprising a frame former configured to form frames of said frame structure, each frame comprising at least two signaling patterns adjacent to each other in a frequency direction and one or more data patterns following the at least two signaling patterns in a time direction in a time slot immediately succeeding a time slot in which the at least two signaling patterns are located, wherein each of the data patterns succeeding the at least two signaling patterns is respectively followed by further data patterns in succeeding time slots in the time direction, each of the at least two signaling patterns and the one or more data patterns comprising a plurality of frequency carriers, to arrange first signaling data in each of said at least two signaling patterns in a frame, and to arrange said one or more data patterns in data frames, each data frame comprising second signaling data and content data, wherein said second signaling data in each data frame includes individual second signaling data for the respective data frame; a transformer configured to transform said at least two signaling patterns and said one or more data patterns from the frequency domain into the time domain to generate a time domain transmission signal; and a transmitter configured to transmit said time domain transmission signal.