Patent ID: 8582596

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a controller to identify physical channels for an enhanced multimedia broadcast/multicast service to be sent in a super-frame comprised of a plurality of time slots, to allocate at least two time slots in the super-frame to each of the physical channels, to select a transport block size from among a plurality of different transport block sizes for each physical channel, and to select coding and modulation for each of the physical channels based on the transport block size selected for each physical channel, wherein different transport block sizes are selected for different physical channels that have the same slot allocation in the super-frame; and a processor to process data for each physical channel based on the coding and modulation selected for the physical channel and to multiplex processed data for each physical channel onto the at least two time slots allocated to the physical channel; wherein the super-frame comprises at least two outer-frames, wherein each outer-frame comprises multiple frames, wherein each frame comprises multiple time slots, and wherein the at least two time slots allocated to each physical channel include at least one time slot in at least one frame of each outer-frame of the super-frame; and wherein each of the physical channels is allocated an integer multiple of a minimum slot allocation, the minimum slot allocation being one time slot in at least one frame of each outer-frame of the super-frame, wherein one transport block is sent on a physical channel in the super-frame for each minimum slot allocation.