Patent ID: 7839828

Claim:
A method of selecting a transport format combination (TFC) for wireless transmission of data, the method comprising: determining a recommended modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a power ceiling for TFC recovery and elimination; generating a transport format combination set (TFCS); calculating a power requirement for each TFC in the TFCS based on the number of bits in each TFC and the MCS used in each TFC; generating an allowed TFCS subset by eliminating any TFC whose power requirement exceeds the power ceiling, and whose MCS exceeds the recommended MCS; generating a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) by multiplexing at least one higher layer PDU within a maximum supported MAC PDU size; selecting a TFC for the MAC PDU from the allowed TFCS subset; performing a padding to the MAC PDU so that the MAC PDU fits into the selected TFC; allocating radio resources and parameters for an initial transmission of the MAC PDU; and retransmitting the MAC PDU when the initial transmission of the MAC PDU fails, the retransmission being performed by using the same radio resources and parameters used for the initial transmission of the MAC PDU.