Patent ID: 8374076

Claim:
A method of transmitting a scheduling request, the method performed by a mobile station (MS) and comprising: receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration that is configured to transmit at least an SRS; receiving a simultaneous transmission indicator indicating whether the SRS and an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) are transmitted in a same SRS subframe; determining the SRS subframe according to the SRS configuration; and transmitting the SRS and a scheduling request (SR) in the same SRS subframe when the SR is triggered at the SRS subframe and the simultaneous transmission indicator enables transmission of the SRS and the ACK/NACK for HARQ in the same SRS subframe, wherein the SRS subframe includes a plurality of single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbols, wherein the SRS is transmitted in a last SC-FDMA symbol of the plurality of SC-FDMA symbols of the SRS subframe, and wherein the SR is transmitted in the remaining SC-FDMA symbols of the plurality of SC-FDMA symbols of the SRS subframe.