Patent ID: 7881222

Claim:
A method for transmitting spread signal by a transmitting end in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining a physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (PHICH) group index and a spreading code index for transmitting an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal by using an index associated with the ACK/NACK signal; spreading the ACK/NACK signal using a spreading code which is indicated by the spreading code index among a plurality of spreading codes; allocating the spread ACK/NACK signal to a PHICH group which is indicated by the PHICH group index among one or more PHICH groups; and transmitting the one or more PHICH groups to a receiving end through a plurality of subcarriers in orthogonal frequency division (OFDM) symbol, wherein the PHICH group index is changed as the index associated with the ACK/NACK signal increases by one, and wherein the spreading code index is changed as the index associated with the ACK/NACK signal increases by the number of PHICH groups.