A method of signaling to a mobile terminal the radio resources that will
be used in a wireless communication between the mobile terminal and a
base station is described. The base station provides a plurality of radio
resources. The method comprises the steps: splitting the plurality of
radio resources into a set of partitions (124, 126), wherein each
partition of the set of partitions comprises a set of virtual blocks
(128, . . . , 138), wherein each virtual block of the set of virtual
blocks is exclusively mapped to one or more radio resources of the
plurality of radio resources; using an identification format (144)
according to which a collection of one or more virtual blocks of the set
of virtual blocks is identifiable; allocating at least a first virtual
block (130, 132) for communication between the mobile terminal and the
base station, first block identifier the at least first virtual block
being identifiable by a first specification (146) according to the
identification format; sending first block identifier the first
specification to the mobile terminal.