Patent ID: 8315330

Claim:
A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a preamble and a frame control header (FCH) for a first wireless communication system from a base station; acquiring first information from the received FCH for a first downlink (DL)/uplink (UL) MAP of the first wireless communication system, the first information indicating a length and a coding scheme of the first DL/UL MAP; acquiring second information from reserved bits of the received FCH for a second control region of a second wireless communication system, the second information indicating: a presence of the second control region of the second wireless communication system; and a start point of a second frame; and communicating with the base station via the second frame for the second wireless communication system when the second information indicates the presence of the second control region, wherein the second frame is defined by the second control region, wherein a first frame for the first wireless communication system is defined by the first DL/UL MAP, wherein the second wireless communication system supports backward compatibility with the first wireless communication system, and wherein a bandwidth of the first wireless communication system is equal to a bandwidth of the second wireless communication system.