Patent ID: 7039030

Claim:
A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) for a code division multiple access (CDMA) telecommunication system having a physical layer and a medium access control (MAC) layer, with the MAC layer providing data to the physical layer via a plurality of transport channels utilizing data transfer blocks of specific sizes for each channel, with each transport channel associated with a set of logical channels where for at least one transfer channel the set of logical channels has at least two logical channels with different logical types, the WTRU comprising: a processor configured to associate, for a given transport channel associated with a logical channel set having two (2) different types of logical channels, a fixed MAC header bit size with each logical channel within said set with each fixed MAC header bit size equal M modulo N where N is a selected integer greater than three (3) and M is an integer greater than zero (0) and less than N; said processor configured to select a logical channel having logical-channel data for transport from a set of logical channels associated with said given transport channel, with the logical-channel data for each transport block having a bit size evenly divisible by N; and said processor configured to provide the logical-channel data from the MAC layer to the physical layer via said given transport channel as a plurality of transport-blocks of data, with each transport block of data including a MAC header and logical-channel data for said transport given channel, with each transport block of data having one of a finite number of transport block (TB) bit sizes, with a first bit size of a first MAC header set to a first fixed size for transport blocks transporting data for the same transport channel and same selected logical-channel data, with the first bit size of the MAC header plus the first bit size of the logical-channel data equal to one of said TB bit sizes, and with a second bit size of a second MAC header set to a second fixed size for transport blocks transporting data for a different transport channel or different selected logical-channel data, with the second bit size of the MAC header plus the second bit size of the different logical-channel data equal to one of said TB bit sizes.