Patent ID: 8634355

Claim:
A method executable by a base station, the method comprising: populating at the base station a download (DL) MAP information element (IE) with information indicative of a number of logical resource units (LRUs) allocated for a download burst; populating at the base station the DL MAP IE with a first index to a first table, the first table comprising a modulation order M of the download burst as a function of the number LRUs allocated for the download burst and as a function of spectral efficiency of the download burst, the information indicative of the number of LRUs allocated for the download burst and the first index to the first table forming a second index to a burst size table, the burst size table comprising a burst size and a segmentation rule for the download burst as a function of the second index; wherein burst sizes larger than a predetermined size are segmented into multiple forward error correction (FEC) blocks having a same size according to the segmentation rule for the second index corresponding to each burst size larger than the predetermined size; and transmitting the DL MAP IL to the mobile station.