Patent ID: 8526991

Claim:
A method for signalling control and data information from a primary station to at least one secondary station, comprising the acts of: transmitting with a first set of control information parameters control information corresponding to data transmission with a first set of data parameters; transmitting with a second set of control information parameters control information corresponding to data transmission with a second set of data parameters, wherein at least one control information parameter has a difference in value between the first set and the second set of control information parameters, said difference in value having a dependency on the difference between a value of a data parameter in the first set of data parameters and a value of the data parameter in the second set of data parameters to maintain a similar coverage for transmission of the control and data information, said data parameter being a different parameter from the at least one control information parameter; and increasing a range of coverage by changing one of the data parameter and the at least one control parameter to include beamforming, and by changing another of the data parameter and the at least one control parameter to at least one of increased transmission power, reduced transmission code rate, and a reduced frequency band, wherein the data parameter and the at least one control parameter are selected from at least one of the transmission power and the transmission code rate, and wherein a value of the transmission code rate is lower in the second set of control information parameters than in the first set of control information parameters.