A communication method, the method comprising: acquiring a channel quality indicator, CQI, index according to an acquired first CQI table; and sending the CQI index to a base station; wherein the first CQI table comprises 13 entries corresponding to 13 CQI indices ranging from 0 to 12, each entry in the first CQI table at least comprises a CQI index, a modulation scheme, a code rate and spectrum efficiency; and wherein: CQI indices 1 to 3 correspond to 3 entries in which the modulation schemes are quadrature phase shift keying, QPSK and in which the spectrum efficiencies are 0.1523, 0.3770 and 0.8770, and in which the code rate are 78, 193, and 449 respectively; CQI indices 4 to 6 correspond to 3 entries in which the modulation schemes are 16 quadrature amplitude modulation, QAM and in which the spectrum efficiencies are 1.4766, 1.9141 and 2.4063, and in which the code rate are 378, 490 and 616 respectively; CQI indices 7 to 11 correspond to 5 entries in which the modulation schemes are 64 QAM and in which the spectrum efficiencies are 2.7305, 3.3223, 3.9023, 4.5234 and 5.1152, and in which the code rate are 466, 567, 666, 772 and 873 respectively; and CQI index 12 corresponds to 1 entry in which the modulation schemes are 256 QAM, and in which spectrum efficiency is 5.5547 and in which code rate is 711. acquiring a channel quality indicator, CQI, index according to an acquired first CQI table; and sending the CQI index to a base station; wherein the first CQI table comprises 13 entries corresponding to 13 CQI indices ranging from 0 to 12, each entry in the first CQI table at least comprises a CQI index, a modulation scheme, a code rate and spectrum efficiency; and wherein: CQI indices 1 to 3 correspond to 3 entries in which the modulation schemes are quadrature phase shift keying, QPSK and in which the spectrum efficiencies are 0.1523, 0.3770 and 0.8770, and in which the code rate are 78, 193, and 449 respectively; CQI indices 4 to 6 correspond to 3 entries in which the modulation schemes are 16 quadrature amplitude modulation, QAM and in which the spectrum efficiencies are 1.4766, 1.9141 and 2.4063, and in which the code rate are 378, 490 and 616 respectively; CQI indices 7 to 11 correspond to 5 entries in which the modulation schemes are 64 QAM and in which the spectrum efficiencies are 2.7305, 3.3223, 3.9023, 4.5234 and 5.1152, and in which the code rate are 466, 567, 666, 772 and 873 respectively; and CQI index 12 corresponds to 1 entry in which the modulation schemes are 256 QAM, and in which spectrum efficiency is 5.5547 and in which code rate is 711. CQI indices 1 to 3 correspond to 3 entries in which the modulation schemes are quadrature phase shift keying, QPSK and in which the spectrum efficiencies are 0.1523, 0.3770 and 0.8770, and in which the code rate are 78, 193, and 449 respectively; CQI indices 4 to 6 correspond to 3 entries in which the modulation schemes are 16 quadrature amplitude modulation, QAM and in which the spectrum efficiencies are 1.4766, 1.9141 and 2.4063, and in which the code rate are 378, 490 and 616 respectively; CQI indices 7 to 11 correspond to 5 entries in which the modulation schemes are 64 QAM and in which the spectrum efficiencies are 2.7305, 3.3223, 3.9023, 4.5234 and 5.1152, and in which the code rate are 466, 567, 666, 772 and 873 respectively; and CQI index 12 corresponds to 1 entry in which the modulation schemes are 256 QAM, and in which spectrum efficiency is 5.5547 and in which code rate is 711.