Patent ID: 8208433

Claim:
A method of communication in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: generating a first transmission frame, the first transmission frame including a group of allocation units and a group of slots, wherein the group of allocation units is characterized by a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a first traffic characteristics (TC), and the first TC being characterized by a first periodicity and a first size of a data packet, the generating comprising: allocating, within the group of allocation units, a first sub-group of allocation units and a second sub-group of allocation units associated with a first mobile station and a second mobile station respectively, wherein the first mobile station and the second mobile station are both configured to use the first MCS and the first TC, and providing, within the group of slots, resource allocation information representative of the allocating, the resource allotation information including information elements (IEs) indicating a boundary of the group of allocation units and location information of the first and second sub-groups of allocation units within the group of allocation units; and generating a second transmission frame subsequent to the first transmission frame, the second transmission frame not including the information elements (IEs), wherein the generating a first transmission frame and generating a second transmission frame are performed by one or more processors.