FREQUENCY HOPPING TECHNIQUE FOR EUTRA UPLINK

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for providing frequency diversity in communications with a base station employing frequency hopping techniques.

SOLUTION: A communications node capable of communicating with another communications node over a communications channel having a plurality of frequency resources comprises: data defining a division of the communications channel into a plurality of contiguous sub-bands each having N frequency resources; data defining an initial allocation of the frequency resources; a resource determination module operable to apply a frequency shift corresponding to an integer number of the sub-bands to the initially allocated frequency resource in accordance with a frequency hopping sequence to determine a frequency resource to use for communicating information with the other communications node; and a communicating portion communicating information with the other communications node using the determined frequency resource. The resource determination module is operable to apply the frequency shift to the initially allocated frequency resource in accordance with a predetermined equation.

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