Method and Apparatus Including One or More Parameters for Defining a More Flexible Radio Communication

A user equipment in a communication network, the user equipment comprising:

• a transceiver that sends and receives signals between the user equipment and a communication network entity including a control information message comprising a resource allocation and an indication identifying whether one or more guard subcarriers are present on a respective one or more of the edges of at least one resource block of the resource allocation, the resource allocation comprising one or more resource blocks, wherein each of the one or more resource blocks comprises a plurality of subcarriers;
• and
• a controller that can decode the indication and determine whether one or more guard subcarriers are present on a respective one or more of the edges of at least one resource block of the resource allocation, wherein the controller further identifies from the indication in the control information message, in addition to identifying whether one or more guard subcarriers are present, that guard subcarriers are present at one of a top edge of the at least one resource block, a bottom edge of the at least one resource block, or both top edge of a first resource block of the at least one resource block and bottom edge of a second resource block of the at least one resource block;
• wherein the indication in the control information message indicating whether one or more subcarriers are present is received as part of the control information message, when the resource allocation is received;
• and
• wherein the controller configures the transceiver of the device in accordance with the received resource allocation and the received indication in the control information message identifying whether one or more guard subcarriers are present, where the transceiver as configured by the controller is used during a subsequent receipt of information via the corresponding resource allocation.