Patent ID: 8718021

Claim:
A method for execution by a subscriber station for transmitting an uplink control message to a base station, the method comprising: a. determining a size of the uplink control message; b. selecting an encoding scheme on the basis of the size of the uplink control message; c. encoding the uplink control message according to the selected encoding scheme to obtain an encoded uplink control message; d. modulating the encoded uplink control message according to a modulation scheme to obtain a modulated uplink control message; e. transmitting the modulated uplink control message uplink to the base station over a wireless interface; wherein the selecting an encoding scheme comprises selecting a first encoding scheme being a code division multiplexing scheme if the size of the uplink control message is within a first size range, and selecting a second encoding scheme being a block code scheme if the size of the control message is within a second size range above the first size range.