System and method for transmitting/receiving information about allocated uplink sounding resources in a communication system

An system and method for transmitting/receiving sounding resource allocation information in a communication system are provided, in which a transmitter selects one of a plurality of preset sounding resource allocation patterns according to operation mode information about an receiver to which uplink resources will be allocated, the uplink resources having a period of a predetermined number of time units and a predetermined number of frequency units, reads resource layout information about each sounding subblocks of an active sounding resource allocation pattern corresponding to the selected sounding resource allocation pattern, and allocates at least one of the sounding subblocks of the sounding resource allocation pattern to the receiver according to the resource layout information and transmitting a sounding resource allocation information including the allocated sounding subblock information.