Patent ID: 8879513

Claim:
A base station, comprising: a transmit path circuitry configured to transmit an uplink grant to a subscriber station; and a receive path circuitry configured to receive one or more multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink coded transport blocks from the subscriber station on a number N L of layers, wherein at least one of acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information and rank indication (RI) information is transmitted in the one or more MIMO uplink coded transport blocks using at least one of a vector sequence q k ACK and a vector sequence q k RI , and wherein each of q k ACK and q k RI comprises N L Q m bits and includes one of a sequence q i ACK . . . q i+Q m −1 ACK of information and a sequence q i RI . . . q i+Q m −1 RI of information repeated N L times, where Q m is a number of bits per symbol, q ACK denotes a bit of coded ACK/NACK information, and q RI denotes a bit of coded RI information.