Patent ID: 8000291

Claim:
A method of selecting an enhanced uplink (EU) transport format combination (E-TFC), the method comprising: setting a scheduling grant payload (SGP) to the highest payload that can be transmitted, wherein the SGP is equal to: SGP = SG × TBsize × β c 2 β ed , j , harq 2 , where SG is a serving grant, TBsize is a transport block size that provides a maximum supported payload, β c is a gain factor of a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH), and β ed , j , harq = β ed , ref ⁢ L e , ref L e , j ⁢ K e , j K e , ref · 10 Δ ⁢ ⁢ harq / 20 where L e,ref is the number of EU dedicated physical data channels (E-DPDCHs) used for a selected reference E-TFC, L e,j is the number of E-DPDCHs used for the j th E-TFC, K e,ref is the number of data bits of the reference E-TFC, K e,j is the number of data bits of the j th E-TFC, and Δ harq is a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) offset for a specific data flow to be transmitted as signaled by higher layers.