Patent ID: 8537750

Claim:
A method for transmitting information, the method comprising: processing a downlink transport channel to generate a transport block (TB) having a TB size, wherein the TB size is selected by: selecting a modulation and coding scheme index (I TBS ) and a physical resource block index (N PRB ), and setting the TB size for the selected I TBS and N PRB wherein an effective code rate at a user equipment (UE) does not exceed a specified threshold, wherein the effective code rate is defined as a number of downlink (DL) information bits including TB cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits and code block CRC bits divided by a number of physical channel bits on Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH); mapping the transport block to multiple spatial layers, wherein the number of spatial layers N is greater than or equal to three; and transmitting the multiple spatial layers to the UE.