Patent ID: 7853205

Claim:
In a communication system having at least one Node B serving a plurality of user equipments (UEs), a method to transmit control signaling information from said Node B to said UEs during a transmission time interval, wherein each control signal information is transmittable with a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) in a predetermined set of MCS, said method comprising the steps of: said Node B using a first MCS to transmit first control signaling information to a first UE in said plurality of UEs; and said Node B using a second MCS to transmit a second control signaling information to a second UE in said plurality of UEs, wherein said first UE and said second UE do not know said first MCS and said second MCS, respectively, and do not know the location of said first control signaling information and said second control signaling information, respectively, prior to decoding said first control signaling information and said second control signal information, respectively.