Patent ID: 8165586

Claim:
A base station operable in a wireless communication system that provides wireless communication service to a plurality of wireless communication devices, the base station comprising: a processor to: encode a positioning reference signal into a first set of transmission resources; encode information other than the positioning reference signal into a second set of transmission resources; and multiplex the first set of transmission resources and the second set of transmission resources into a subframe that includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, wherein the first set of transmission resources is multiplexed into a portion of a first set of OFDM symbols of the subframe based on an identifier associated with the base station and wherein the second set of transmission resources is multiplexed into a second set of OFDM symbols of the subframe; and a transmitter coupled to the processor to transmit the subframe to at least one wireless communication device of the plurality of wireless communication devices.