Patent ID: 9736830
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of operation of a wireless device to receive a downlink transmission from a radio access node of a 3 rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, Long Term Evolution, LTE, network to the wireless device, comprising: receiving downlink control information transmitted by the radio access node, the downlink control information comprising a Modulation and Coding Scheme, MCS, index indicative of a MCS used for a downlink transmission from the radio access node to the wireless device; determining a Transport Block Size, TBS, index based on the MCS index and predefined relationships between TBS index values and MCS index values; determining a TBS for the downlink transmission from the radio access node to the wireless device based on the TBS index and a number of resource blocks, N receiving the downlink transmission from the radio access node according to the downlink control information and the TBS determined for the downlink transmission.