Patent ID: 8570961

Claim:
A communication control method, comprising: determining a number of bits for transmitting downlink shared data channel information based on one or both of a number of users and a traffic amount; and generating a signal for the downlink shared data channel information to be transmitted with the determined number of bits, wherein the step of determining comprises determining whether to transmit the downlink shared data channel information in either a first number of bits suitable for transmitting the downlink shared data channel information or a second number of bits suitable for transmitting uplink shared data channel information, whether the first number of bits is greater than the second number of bits, and wherein, if the number of users is a small number of users, the step of determining comprises determining to transmit the downlink shared data channel information in the first number of bits suitable for transmitting the downlink shared data channel information, and if the number of users is a large number of users, the step of determining comprises determining to transmit the downlink shared data channel information in the second number of bits suitable for transmitting the uplink shared data channel information.