US Patent 7839880 OFDM communication system and OFDM communication method

In an OFDM communication system that performs OFDM data communication by dividing a band region into a plurality of bands and assigning each band to a mobile station, a base station monitors transmission characteristics of the bands and state of use of adjacent bands, then sets whether to use or not use guard band regions between bands for data transmission based upon the transmission characteristics, and the state of use of the adjacent bands.