Patent ID: 7983143

Claim:
A method for use in a base station in a wireless communication system for generating and transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal, the base station comprising a synchronization channel signal generator and transmitter circuitry and the method comprising the steps of: the synchronization channel signal generator generating a synchronization channel signal comprising a plurality of synchronization channel signal sequence elements including a first set of synchronization channel signal sequence elements and a second set of synchronization channel signal sequence elements, wherein the first set of synchronization channel signal sequence elements are derived in response to a modification of a general chirp like (GCL) sequence modified to fit a predetermined channel size of the OFDMA signal and defined in response to first partial cell identification information associated with the base station, and wherein the second set of synchronization channel signal sequence elements is based on a cyclically shifted maximal length binary sequence with a cyclic shift of the maximal length binary sequence defined in response to second partial cell identification information associated with the base station; and the transmitter circuitry transmitting the OFDMA signal including the synchronization channel signal.