Patent ID: 7436806

Claim:
A method for mapping first coded TFCI (Transport Format Combination Indicator) symbols and second coded TFCI symbols to a radio frame in a transmission apparatus of a mobile communication system for encoding k first TFCI bits and (10−k) second TFCI bits, a sum of the first coded TFCI symbols and the second coded TFCI symbols being 32, the method comprising the steps of: multiplexing the first and second coded TFCI symbols such that the first coded TFCI symbols and the second coded TFCI symbols are uniformly distributed according to a transmission mode and a data rate of the radio frame, and outputting 32 coded symbols; and mapping the 32 multiplexed coded symbols to the radio frame to satisfy a number of the coded symbols that can be mapped to one radio frame, determined according to the transmission mode and the data rate of the radio frame.