Patent ID: 8498198

Claim:
A method of transmitting a scheduling request (SR), the method performed by a mobile terminal and comprising: receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration to determine a SRS subframe; receiving a simultaneous transmission indicator indicating whether the mobile terminal is configured to support a transmission of a SRS and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement/not-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in one subframe; and transmitting the SRS and a SR in the SRS subframe, if the mobile terminal is configured to support the transmission of the SRS and the HARQ ACK/NACK on the PUCCH in the one subframe, wherein the SRS subframe includes a plurality of single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbols, and wherein the SRS is transmitted in a last SC-FDMA symbol of the SRS subframe and the SR is transmitted in remaining SC-FDMA symbols of the SRS subframe.