Patent ID: 8737326

Claim:
A method comprising: permuting, by a superordinate station in a wireless network, physical resource units to logical resource units, the physical resource units of sequential logical resource units being noncontiguous; in response to a plurality of mobile stations entering a cell served by the superordinate station, sending at least one allocation message allocating a block of sequential logical resource units to each of the plurality of mobile stations, each of the allocated blocks being contiguous with at least one other allocated block; in response to a first mobile station selected from the plurality of mobile stations exiting the cell served by the superordinate station and a second mobile station selected from the plurality of mobile stations exiting the cell served by the superordinate station, de-allocating at least a first block of sequential logical resource units from the first mobile station and a second block of sequential logical resource units from the second mobile station, the first block of sequential logical resource units being noncontiguous with the second block of logical resource units; and in response to a new mobile station entering the cell served by the superordinate station, sending at least one re-allocation message allocating the first block of sequential logical resource units and at least a portion of the second block of logical resource units to the new mobile station.