Patent ID: 8102755

Claim:
A method for mapping a physical downlink control format indicator channel to physical resources, the method carried out with respect to resource element groups each comprising four respective resource elements located therewithin, the method carried out with respect to a system bandwidth comprising a quantity of resource blocks, the method carried out with respect to a cell having propriety ID, the method comprising: mapping data y(0), . . . y(15) in a physical downlink control format indicator channel to physical resources by combining four contiguous subcarriers in order except the pilots into a group defining a resource element group, the four contiguous subcarriers comprising resource elements respective thereto: mapping y(0), . . . y(3) to the resource elements located within a resource element group k1=k 0 ; mapping y(4), . . . y(7) to the resource elements located within a resource element group k2=k 0 +└N RB DL /2┘; mapping y(8), . . . y(11) to the resource elements located within a resource element group k3=k 0 +└2N RB DL /2┘=k 0 +└N RB DL ┘; mapping y(12), . . . y(15) to the resource elements located within a resource element group k4=k 0 +└3N RB DL /2┘; wherein, k 0 =N ID cell mod(└N RB DL /2┘), and N RB DL is the quantity of resource blocks in the system bandwidth, and N ID cell is the proprietary ID of the cell; communicating the physical downlink control format indicator channel information by means of a broadband wireless communications system according to the mapping.