Patent ID: 8619742

Claim:
A method in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: generating channel quality indicator (CQI) bits and antenna weight indicator (AWI) bits for transfer to an encoder in a user equipment (UE); utilizing a (20,10,6) code to produce a (20, 10, 6) codeword according to a ten bit sequence comprising the CQI bits and AWI bits, wherein the (20,10,6) code has a distance spectrum relative to an all-zero codeword of: one codeword, said codeword being the all-zero codeword having zero Hamming distance; 40 codewords having Hamming distance 6; 160 codewords having Hamming distance 7; 130 codewords having Hamming distance 8; 176 codewords having Hamming distance 10; 320 codewords having Hamming distance 11; 120 codewords having Hamming distance 12; 40 codewords having Hamming distance 14; 32 codewords having Hamming distance 15; and 5 codewords having Hamming distance 16; and transmitting the produced (20, 10, 6) codeword to a receiver.