Patent ID: 8681715

Claim:
A wireless communication method of a distributed single carrier frequency division multiple access scheme for a base station to allocate a plurality of distributed frequency bands to a plurality of terminals, the wireless communication method comprising: allocating a first plurality of subcarriers of a first distributed frequency band of the plurality of distributed frequency bands to a first terminal of the plurality of terminals in equally-spaced x carrier intervals; and allocating a second plurality of subcarriers of a second distributed frequency band of the plurality of distributed frequency bands to a second terminal of the plurality of terminals in equally-spaced y (x≠y) carrier intervals, wherein each of the first distributed frequency band and the second distributed frequency band is included in one frequency band composed of a plurality of consecutive subcarriers, the first plurality of subcarriers and the second plurality of subcarriers are included in the plurality of consecutive subcarriers, and values of x and y are selected such that a lowest common multiple of x and y is x×y.