Patent ID: 8675574

Claim:
An OFDMA communication system for performing communication using one or more subchannels between a base station and a plurality of terminals, the communication system comprising: a downlink frame generation circuit which generates a downlink frame for a downlink period for performing communication from the base station to at least one terminal of the plurality of terminals; an uplink frame generation circuit which generates an uplink frame for an uplink period for performing communication from at least one terminal of the plurality of terminals to the base station; and a channel allocation circuit nit which allocates, for one terminal of the plurality of terminals, one or more subchannels available in the one terminal, wherein the channel allocation circuit notifies information of the allocated one or more available subchannels for a sequence pair of downlink and uplink frames to the one terminal only by the downlink frame, the channel allocation circuit notifies the information of the allocated one or more available subchannels to each terminal on a different anchor subchannel for the each terminal, and the each terminal is notified of its individual allocation on a different anchor subchannel for the each terminal.