Patent ID: 8223691

Claim:
A base station for receiving a channel quality indicator from a mobile station, comprising: perform a determination of whether a mobile station is to transmit (i) first information indicating positions of subcarriers selected by the mobile station within a communication band and second information related with channel qualities of the subcarriers selected by the mobile station within the communication band, or (ii) channel quality indicators related with all subcarriers within the communication band without information indicating positions of any of the subcarriers within the communication band, wherein a data volume of summation of the first information and the second information to be transmitted in (i) is smaller than a data volume of the channel quality indicators related with all subcarriers within the communication band to be transmitted in (ii); a transmitting unit configured to transmit information designating the determination of the determining unit and information related with a number indicating a quantity of the subcarriers to be selected by the mobile station, to the mobile station; and a receiving unit configured to receive (i) the first information and the second information or (ii) the channel quality indicators of all subcarriers within the communication band, from the mobile station.