Methods, devices and a computer-readable medium are disclosed for subcarrier allocation to multiple users in wireless local-area networks in accordance with orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). A high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW) master device is disclosed. The HEW master device includes circuitry configured to transmit data to a plurality of HEW devices, in accordance with OFDMA, on a plurality of noncontiguous sub-channels. Each noncontiguous sub-channel may be a plurality of subcarriers across a bandwidth. A HEW device is disclosed. The HEW device may include circuitry configured to transmit data to a HEW master device, in accordance with OFDMA and a resource map, on a noncontiguous sub-channel over a bandwidth. The circuitry may be further configured to transmit the noncontiguous subcarriers at a greater power level than a regulatory power level for the plurality of interlaced subcarriers if the plurality of interlaced subcarriers were contiguous.