Patent attributes
A communications node includes data defining a division of a 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 to the initially allocated frequency resources in accordance with a frequency hopping sequence to determine frequency resources to use for communicating information according to the following:y={x+a(t)N} mod NRB whereNRB is the total number of frequency resources in the transmission band;N is the number of contiguous frequency resources in each sub-band;x is the initially allocated frequency resource;y is the frequency hopped resource;t is a time counter;a(t) is the frequency hopping shift applied at time point t, and is an integer value from the set {0, 1, . . . , S−1}; andS is the number of sub-bands; anda transceiver.
