Patent ID: 8638726

Claim:
A method for communicating in a mobile wireless network, the method comprising: transmitting an ordered medium access protocol (MAP) signal sequence describing a series of transmissions, each transmission having a corresponding number of allocated resource units, the ordered MAP signal sequence using a single MAP descriptor for transmitting information that concurrently describes multiple sub-bursts having the same one of a set of distinct signal lengths of resource units, each of a first plurality of locations in the ordered MAP signal sequence being pre-designated to describe a corresponding one of a plurality of distinct signal lengths of resource units of a subset of the transmissions, each distinct signal length corresponding to a pre-designated modulation scheme, each of a second plurality of locations in the ordered MAP signal sequence corresponding to one of the first plurality of locations in the ordered MAP signal, each second plurality of locations in the ordered MAP signal sequence being pre-designated to describe a number of sub-bursts that are to have the distinct signal length of resource units described in the corresponding one of the first plurality of locations, and a third plurality of locations in the ordered MAP signal sequence being pre-designated to describe a device that is to transmit a sub-burst in each of the plurality of distinct signal lengths of resource units corresponding to each of the first plurality of locations using the pre-designated modulation scheme corresponding to the distinct signal length.