Patent ID: 8483086

Claim:
A method of operating a mobile station, the method comprising: receiving, by the mobile station, downlink control information including a multi-subframe resource assignment and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index, the multi-subframe resource assignment including a number of resource blocks assigned in one subframe, wherein the multi-subframe resource assignment assigns resources in a plurality of subframes; and determining a transport block size using said MCS index, the number of resources blocks assigned in one subframe, and an offset, by accessing a table of said mobile station, said table including a plurality of transport block sizes corresponding to a plurality of time-frequency resource allocations; wherein the offset is a number of subframes for which the multi-subframe resource assignment assigns resources; and wherein accessing the table is performed using the MCS scheme index and a product of the number of resources blocks assigned in one subframe and the number of subframes for which the multi-subframe resource assignment assigns resources.