Patent ID: 8428007

Claim:
A method for receiving a transport block in a mobile communication system, the method being performed by a receiving apparatus and comprising: receiving a control channel comprising a transport block size indicator and a resource allocation size indicator for a transmission of a transport block destined to the receiving apparatus, determining a transport block size index based on the resource allocation size indicator and the transport block size indicator, wherein the resource allocation size indicator determines the minimum or the maximum transport block size index of a subset of non-consecutive transport block size indices of all available transport block size indices and the transport block size indicator determines the transport block size index from the subset of non-consecutive transport block size indices corresponding to the transport block size of the transport block, and extracting the transport block from the shared channel based on the resource allocation size indicator defining the number of resource blocks used to transmit the transport block and based on the selected transport block size index indicating the size of the transport block.