Patent ID: 8848557

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining, in a subscriber station, a number of resource elements (REs) to be used for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) or rank indication (RI) by: determining a number O of payload bits for the HARQ-ACK or RI, wherein, when the number O of payload bits is less than or equal to a first value of two bits, a minimum number Q min of the resource elements to be used for the HARQ-ACK or RI is the number O of payload bits, and wherein, when the number O of payload bits is greater than the first value but less than or equal to a second value, the minimum number Q min of resource elements to be used for the HARQ-ACK or RI is based on a ceiling function operating on a multiple of the number O of payload bits and a modulation order Q′ m for a transport block including the HARQ-ACK or RI; and assigning, in the subscriber station, a number of REs for the HARQ-ACK or RI based upon the minimum number Q min .