Patent ID: 8520548

Claim:
A method of conveying transport block size (TBS) information from a first node to a second node, comprising: determining one or more transport block size (TBS) parameters for a wireless transmission of data between the first node and the second node based on a first number of transmission layers associated with the wireless transmission, wherein the TBS parameters are to be used in decoding one or more transport blocks transmitted as part of the wireless transmission; generating a control message indicating the TBS parameters; transmitting the control message to the second node; transmitting at least one of the transport blocks to the second node in accordance with the TBS parameters indicated by the control message, wherein the at least one transport block is transmitted over the first number of transmission layers; and retransmitting the at least one transport block to the second node in accordance with the TBS parameters indicated by the control message, wherein the at least one transport block is retransmitted over a second number of transmission layers that differs from the first number of transmission layers.