Patent ID: 8149780

Claim:
Method for multiplexing one or more users and/or traffic channels to one or more communication resources in a time-frequency divided communication system, wherein the multiplexing does not require communication resource planning, and is represented by a set of time-frequency (T-F) mapping patterns (TFPs), the method comprising: generating, by the time-frequency divided communication system, a generic TFP (TFP generic ), generating, by the time-frequency divided communication system, a set of orthogonal TFPs from said TFP generic ; performing, by the time-frequency divided communication system, a pseudo-random variable cyclic offsetting of said set of orthogonal TFPs in each transmission time interval (TTI); changing said pseudo-random cyclic offset for each TTI, according to a cell-specific multi-level pseudo-random sequence; and allocating, by the time-frequency divided communication system, the pseudo-randomly cyclically offset orthogonal TFPs to the one or more users and/or traffic channels in each TTI for multiplexing the one or more users and/or traffic channels to the one or more communication resources in the time-frequency divided communication system.