Patent ID: 8923335

Claim:
A method for setting a redundancy version (RV) value of a system information message, comprising: setting, by an enhanced Node-B (eNB), a RV value of the system information message in a first subframe as 0 ; setting, by the eNB, a RV value of the system information message in a second subframe as 2 ; setting, by the eNB, a RV value of the system information message in a third subframe as 3 ; and setting, by the eNB, a RV value of the system information message in a fourth subframe as 1 ; wherein the first subframe, the second subframe, and third subframe and the fourth subframe are four continuous subframes in a transmission window of the system information message; transmitting, by the eNB, the system information message within the transmission window.