Patent ID: 9520963
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a mobile device that is configured to receive a multi-antenna downlink transmission from a network node of a mobile communication network, the mobile device being configured to perform link adaptation to select a suitable Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) from a plurality of available MCSs for the multi-antenna downlink transmission, the method comprising: determining whether to use an unrestricted set of MCSs or a restricted set of MCSs, the unrestricted set of MCSs comprising all of the plurality of available MCSs, the restricted set comprising a subset of the plurality of available MCSs, wherein said step of determining comprises: using, according to said step of determining, either the restricted set of MCSs or the unrestricted set of MCs to select the MCS to be used for performing link adaptation for the multi-antenna downlink transmission.