Patent ID: 8379565

Claim:
A method for mapping a system bandwidth to subbands and minibands in a base station of a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: dividing the system bandwidth into a plurality of physical resource units (PRUs); and mapping the plurality of the physical resource units to at least one subband physical resource unit (PRU SB ) and at least one miniband physical resource unit (PRU MB ), wherein the mapping is based on first interval between contiguous resource units which include a predetermined number of contiguous PRUs and a second interval greater than the first interval, and is based on a greatest common divisor between a maximum number of the contiguous resource units and the first interval between the contiguous resource units, and wherein the first interval between the contiguous resource units is a roundup value of a value resulting from dividing the maximum number of the contiguous resource units by the number of the contiguous resource units to allocate to the minibands.