A method for receiving a downlink signal by an apparatus in a wireless mobile communication system, the method includes receiving common downlink control information including a resource indication value, RIV, wherein the RIV is mapped to a start index S and a length L of consecutive virtual resource blocks, VRBs; and receiving the downlink signal on the consecutive VRBs, wherein the start index, S, is an element of a first set {s: s=mG