Patent ID: 11968599
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A base station in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:
a transceiver; and
at least one processor configured to:
transmit, via the transceiver, configuration information associated with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for multicast,
determine a transport block size (TBS) associated with limited buffer rate matching (LBRM),
perform rate matching based on the TBS associated with the LBRM, and
transmit, via the transceiver, the PDSCH after performing the rate matching,

wherein in case that information associated with a maximum number of layers is configured, the maximum number of layers is given by the information associated with the maximum number of layers, and
wherein in case that the information associated with the maximum number of layers is not configured, the maximum number of layers equals to 1.