Patent ID: 8737503

Claim:
A method for mapping modulation symbols to multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) layers, the method comprising: receiving a first set of modulation symbols corresponding to a first transport block (TB), wherein the first TB comprises a plurality of code blocks; partitioning the first set of modulation symbols into M 1 parts, where M 1 is a positive integer value greater than one, wherein all modulation symbols of at least one code block belong to a single part; assigning an i-th part to an i-th MIMO layer, i=1, . . . , M 1 ; and transmitting the modulation symbols mapped onto M 1 MIMO layers, wherein a resulting mapping of the first TB to M 1 MIMO layers comprises x (a) ( i )= d (1) ( i ) x (b) ( i )= d (l) ( M symb layer +i )′ where x (j) (i) is an i-th modulation symbol on a j-th MIMO layer, a is a first index of a MIMO layer, b is a second index of a MIMO layer, a≠b, d (j) (i) is an i-th modulation symbols of a j-th TB, i=0, 1, . . . , M symb layer −1, M symb layer is a number of modulation symbols per layer, and d (1) refers to the first TB.