Patent ID: 8724448

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to at least perform the following: observing an indication about the coverage status of a user equipment; deciding, based on the indication, to switch into a coverage extension mode; providing a scaling number in dependence of the coverage extension mode; allocating, for data to be transmitted to a user equipment, a first modulation and coding scheme, a first modulation order, a first size of a transport block, and a first number of resource blocks per transport block according to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technology; reducing a first size per resource block, being the quotient of the first size of the transport block and the first number of resource blocks per transport block, based on the scaling number, thus obtaining a second size per resource block, being the quotient of a second size of the transport block and a second number of resource blocks per transport block; and scheduling, for the data, the second size of the transport block and the second number of resource blocks per transport block.