Patent ID: 8254941

Claim:
A method for allocating resources in a Base Station (BS) in a wireless access system, the method comprising: allocating, by the BS, resources to a Mobile Station (MS) by resource allocation information; determining, by the BS, both of whether the MS requires continuous resource allocation and whether the MS does not have transmission data temporarily, when a resource allocation duration for downlink resources allocated to the MS has expired; performing, by the BS, one of resource allocation termination, resource allocation renewal, and temporary resource lending to another MS according to the determination, and transmitting information for updating the resource allocation information to the MS, and wherein the performing step comprise: terminating the resource allocation, if the MS does not require continuous resource allocation; renewing the resource allocation, if the MS requires continuous resource allocation and continuously has transmission data; and determining whether to lend the allocated resources, lending the resources to another MS during a lending period when the BS determines to lend the allocated resources, and then reallocating the resources to the MS, if the MS requires continuous resource allocation and does not have transmission data temporarily.