may be the same as that for embodiments in which an ms so requests in other embodiments shog id information may be provided as a field in a message for assigning transmission resources as previously illustrated in relation to an ms request in other embodiments shog id scrambling may be combined with a scrambling code generation function 330 the present invention further provides that an ms may feed channel quality information cqi of a combined channel u2014 for a shog u2014 back to a base station in certain embodiments the ms sends the cqi for one sector and also sends the difference between this cqi and cqi for the combined channel while table 3 illustratively depicts message structure that may comprise these fields table 4 illustratively depicts encoding structure for a field representing cqi difference in other embodiments individual cqi reports for sectors of a shog may be sent to a base station either simultaneously or at different times the base station may use these cqi reports to estimate cqi for a combined channel in further accordance with the present invention a shog may be changed while maintaining a same serving sector a serving sector may be changed while maintaining a same.