Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jeroen Theeuwes

Dong-seek Park

Young-Kwon Cho

Chang-Ho Suh

Seok-Hyun Yoon

Jung-Min Ro

Sung-Kwon Hong

Petar Popovski

Young-Kyun Kim

Frank Hanns Paul Fitzek

Ramjee Prasad

Carl Simon Wijting

A subcarrier assignment apparatus and a subcarrier assignment method, in which each of a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) constituting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication system provides services in the capacity of a serving BS to Mobile Stations (MSs). Channel quality information for the respective MSs are fed-back from the respective BSs. Subcarriers are assigned to the respective MSs according to a corresponding scheduling scheme in consideration of the channel quality information for the respective MSs, which are fed-back from the respective BSs, and then BSs which manage the subcarriers assigned to the respective MSs according to the corresponding scheduling scheme are selected. These operations provide site diversity to each of the MSs, and thus system capacity is maximized.

Apparatus and method for assigning subcarrier in OFDMA communication system

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Aalborg, Denmark

Jeroen Theeuwes