According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the number of additional tone units being added to the tone design resource unit may vary in accordance with the number of 26-tone resource units configuring the tone design resource unit. For example, the number of additional tone units that are to be linearly added to the tone design resource unit may be linearly increased in accordance with the number of 26-tone resource units configuring the tone design resource unit.
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More specifically, in case the number of 26-tone resource units configuring the tone design resource unit is equal to 1, one (1) 4-tone additional tone unit may be used so as to define a 30-tone design resource unit 200. 26-tone resource units and/or 242-tone resource units may be allocated within remaining frequency resources that remain after excluding the frequency resources that are allocated to the 30-tone tone design resource unit 200.
In case the number of 26-tone resource units configuring the tone design resource unit is equal to 2, two (2) 4-tone additional tone units may be used so as to define a 60-tone design resource unit (2×26 tones+2×4 tones=60 tones) 210. 26-tone resource units and/or 242-tone resource units may be allocated within remaining frequency resources that remain after excluding the frequency resources that are allocated to the 60-tone tone design resource unit 210.