RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND MAPPING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

Techniques for allocating and mapping resources in a wireless communicati on system are described. The system may use hop-ports to facilitate allocati on and use of subcarriers. In one aspect, the hop-ports may be partitioned i nto multiple subzones, with each subzone including a configurable number of hop-ports. The hop-ports within each subzone may be permuted or shuffled bas ed on a permutation function. After permutation, the hop-ports in all subzon es may be mapped to the subcarriers based on local or global hopping. In ano ther aspect, a set of hop-ports may be mapped to a set of subcarriers. A hop -port may be mapped to an unavailable subcarrier and may then be remapped to another available subcarrier. In yet another aspect, a set of hop-ports may be mapped to a set of subcarriers distributed (e.g., evenly) across all sub carriers but avoiding subcarriers in a reserved zone.