Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for allocating an uplink carrier for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation of M (M?1) uplink component carriers comprises: a step of receiving setup information on a primary uplink component carrier, from among said M uplink component carriers, via which one or more pieces of uplink control information are to be transmitted; a step of multiplexing said one or more pieces of uplink control information; and a step of transmitting the multiplexed uplink control information through the primary uplink component carrier.

Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal via physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for performing the method are provided. Control information bits are modulated to generate N1 modulation symbols, wherein N1 is twice a number of subcarriers in one resource block (RB). The modulation symbols are spread by using various orthogonal codes to generate a plurality of sequences and the generated plurality of sequences are transmitted using different slots of a subframe through different antenna ports, each sequence of the plurality of sequences being mapped on a corresponding single carrier frequency division multiple access symbol in a corresponding slot.

Abstract: A method of transmitting cyclic prefix length information when wireless access systems having different cyclic prefix lengths coexist is disclosed. The method of transmitting cyclic prefix length information comprises including the cyclic prefix length information in a preamble; and transmitting the preamble to a receiving end, whereby a transmitter can notify the receiving end of a current cyclic prefix length. Also, in a specific interval where a super frame header is defined, a single cyclic prefix length is used in a legacy support mode and a legacy disable mode, and cyclic prefix length information of other data or control channel is included in the super frame header and then transmitted to the receiving end. If different CP lengths are used in a legacy support mode of an evolved system, it is possible to solve a problem in detecting a control channel or a data channel, which may occur as the CP lengths are not distinguished from each other after preamble detection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to transmission and reception of a frame for a legacy support mode of IEEE 802.16m system for supporting a legacy system. A method of transmitting an uplink signal, in which a signal is transmitted by a user equipment in a wireless mobile communication system, according to the present invention includes the step of transmitting the signal from the user equipment, wherein the signal is transmitted via an uplink frame including 15 OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiple access) symbols and wherein the uplink frame comprises a first uplink subframe including 9 OFDMA symbols and a second uplink subframe including 6 OFDMA symbols. Preferably, the user equipment is multiplexed with a second user equipment supporting a legacy system for the wireless mobile communication system only by FDM for an uplink.

Abstract: A method for allocating the resources of a remaining region other than a region carrying a SuperFrame Header (SFH) and signaling the resource allocation is disclosed. A Mobile Station (MS) receives resource allocation information about a remaining region other than a region carrying an SFH in a predetermined channel bandwidth by the SFH from a Base Station (BS) and decodes the received resource allocation information. The MS decodes control information efficiently by receiving repetition number information about a sub_secondary SFH (sub_S-SFH) or sub_secondary Broadcast CHannel (sub_S-BCH) from the BS by a Primary SFH (P-SFH) or Primary BCH (P-BCH).

Abstract: A method of transmitting, by a transmitter, information in a wireless communication system, the method includes generating first and second symbols; generating first and second transmit vectors on the basis of an Alamouti code from the first and second symbols; and transmitting the first transmit vector through a first antenna and transmitting the second transmit vector through a second antenna. The first transmit vector consists of a first transmit symbol and a second transmit symbol. The second transmit vector consists of a third transmit symbol and a fourth transmit symbol. The first, second, third, and fourth transmit symbols are transmitted based on first and second resource indexes. The first symbol is a first modulation symbol for first information, and the second symbol is a second modulation symbol for second information.

Abstract: A method for uplink transmitting control information from a user equipment in a wireless communication system comprises selecting a specific point among a plurality of points distributed into a symbol space, corresponding to control information, the symbol space including a modulation dimension and a sequence dimension; mapping a signal corresponding to the specific point with a control channel including single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbols; and transmitting the control channel. Preferably, the specific point belongs to the sequence dimension.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for monitoring the control channel in a multiple carrier system. A terminal determines an extended search space comprising a plurality of sub-search spaces, and each of the plurality of sub-search spaces corresponds to at least one of a plurality of scheduled component carriers. The terminal monitors a downlink control channel for the scheduled component carrier corresponding to each of the plurality of sub-search spaces. At least one of the plurality of sub-search spaces is a shared sub-search space corresponding to at least two of the plurality of scheduled component carriers.

Abstract: A data transmitter for a wireless communication system is provided. Said apparatus comprises an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) symbol generating part that generates a plurality of OFDM symbols, a frame configuration part that configures a frame comprising includes said plurality of OFDM symbols, and a transmission part that transmits said plurality of OFDM symbols based on said frame that has been configured. Said frame is divided into a plurality of sub-frames, the number of OFDM symbols that are included in an optional sub-frame is any one of 5, 6, and 7, and the bandwidth of said wireless communication system is 8.75 MHz. Based on a new frame configuration, new parameter requirements may be satisfied taking backward compatibility into account.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more particularly, to a frame structure to which OFDM symbols having a cyclic prefix are transmitted. A method of constructing a frame in a broadband wireless access system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises including one or more first subframes in the frame, the first subframes including a plurality of symbols having a cyclic prefix of a first length; and including one or more second subframes in the frame, the second subframes including a plurality of symbols having a cyclic prefix of a second length different from the first length, wherein the number of the first subframes and the number of the second subframes are determined considering an idle time for which effective symbols are not included in the frame.

Abstract: A method of selecting a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes measuring a frequency selectivity of a receiving channel, selecting a MCS index having a coding rate below a prescribed coding rate threshold value if the measured frequency selectivity is greater than or equal to a specified frequency selectivity threshold, and selecting the MCS index having the coding rate above or equal to the prescribed coding rate threshold value if the measured frequency selectivity is less than the specified frequency selectivity threshold.

Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal using a plurality of transmit (Tx) antennas is provided. The apparatus includes a synchronization signal generator for generating a synchronization signal used for tracking timing or frequency synchronization, a transmission processor for allocating different subcarriers to a plurality of Tx antennas without overlapping, mapping the synchronization signal to the subcarriers, and generating an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol by performing inverse fast Fourier transformation (IFFT), a control signal coupler for controlling codes as a resource not to overlap among the plurality of Tx antennas, and the plurality of Tx antennas for transmitting the OFDM symbol.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting multicast broadcast service (MBS) data in a wireless communication system using fractional frequency reuse (FFR). The method comprises: allocating, to a common network zone, part or whole of a frequency partition where FRF (frequency reuse factor) is 1, from among a plurality of frequency partitions; and transmitting MBS data in the common network zone.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining the transmission mode in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmission mode determination in a wireless communication system, comprising a step wherein feedback information regarding channel status is received, and a step wherein it is determined based on said feedback information whether a transmission signal will be transmitted via each of a fixed number of subcarriers, after applying a propagation sequence.

Abstract: A method of transmitting a wideband frame for a wideband system having backward compatibility with a narrowband system includes configuring a wideband carrier by using a set of base carriers, wherein a bandwidth of the base carriers corresponds to a bandwidth of the narrowband system and any one of center frequencies of the base carriers is the same as a center frequency of the narrowband system, and allocating all or some of guard subcarriers between the two adjacent base carriers to a traffic channel when a center frequency spacing between two adjacent base carriers is an integer multiple of a subcarrier spacing. Accordingly, the method can be used to support backward compatibility with the narrowband system. Further, the method can be equally used when the narrowband system co-exists with the wideband system in a guard band defined in a narrowband of a new system.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for performing communication using a half-frequency division duplex (H-FDD) frame structure in a mobile communication system. A user equipment for performing communication using an H-FDD frame structure according to the present invention comprises an RF unit in which each user equipment group receives and transmits signals using the H-FDD frame structure wherein the order of the downlink zone and uplink zone are reversely allocated to each of the groups. The downlink zone and uplink zone, which are allocated to each of the user equipment groups in the H-FDD frame structure, include a sub-frame wherein one or more symbols are allocated to idle time slots or are punctured. Each of the user equipment groups can receive and transmit signals using symbols that are not allocated to the idle time slots or are not punctured in the sub-frame.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus of transmitting and receiving backhaul downlink control information in a wireless communication system. In the method for transmitting backhaul downlink control information from a base station in a wireless communication system according to one aspect of the present invention, the base station transmits resource allocation information to at least one terminal and at least one relay node via a relay-physical downlink control channel (hereinafter referred to as “R-PDCCH”); transmits backhaul system information to the at least one relay node and the at least one terminal via a relay physical downlink shared channel (hereinafter referred to as “R-PDSCH”) which is determined according to the resource allocation information; and changes a backhaul downlink resource block according to the backhaul system information.

Abstract: A method for receiving a superframe header at a mobile station in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a sub-frame including the superframe header and a first data channel and decoding the received superframe header. Herein, the superframe header is located within a predetermined physical frequency band and the pre-determined physical frequency band includes a synchronization channel.

Abstract: A method for uplink transmission in an OFDMA system is provided. The subcarrier transmission method includes arranging 4 pilot REs at different positions of a frequency axis in a basic unit when the basic unit includes 4 subcarriers on the frequency axis and 6 OFDM(A) symbols in a time axis, arranging data REs at remaining positions of the basic unit, and transmitting the basic unit to a receiving end.

Abstract: A data transmitter for a wireless communication system is provided. Said apparatus comprises an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) symbol generating part that generates a plurality of OFDM symbols, a frame configuration part that configures a frame comprising includes said plurality of OFDM symbols, and a transmission part that transmits said plurality of OFDM symbols based on said frame that has been configured. Said frame is divided into a plurality of sub-frames, the number of OFDM symbols that are included in an optional sub-frame is any one of 5, 6, and 7, and the bandwidth of said wireless communication system is 8.75 MHz. Based on a new frame configuration, new parameter requirements may be satisfied taking backward compatibility into account.