MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) COMMUNICATION
First Claim
1. A method of determining at user equipment a transport block size for a secondary stream transmitted in addition to a primary stream by said user equipment when supporting Multiple Input Multiple Output communications with a base station of a wireless telecommunications network, said method comprising:
- receiving a grant associated with said secondary stream; and
determining a transport block size for said secondary stream in accordance with a relationship between grant and transport block size, said relationship differing from a primary relationship between grant and transport block size used to determine a primary transport block size for said primary stream.
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Abstract
A method for supporting multiple-input-multiple-output communications with a base station of a wireless telecommunications network, user equipment and a computer program product are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of establishing a grant associated with a secondary stream; and determining a transport block size for said secondary stream in accordance with a relationship between grant and transport block size, said relationship differing from a primary relationship between grant and transport block size used to determine a primary transport block size for a primary stream. By using this approach, where a different relationship, mapping, function or lookup table is used to derive the transport block size for the secondary stream to that relationship, mapping or function used to derive the transport block size for the primary stream from the grant of the primary stream enables different transport block sizes to be used, each of which may be appropriate to its associated stream.
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16 Claims
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1. A method of determining at user equipment a transport block size for a secondary stream transmitted in addition to a primary stream by said user equipment when supporting Multiple Input Multiple Output communications with a base station of a wireless telecommunications network, said method comprising:
- receiving a grant associated with said secondary stream; and
determining a transport block size for said secondary stream in accordance with a relationship between grant and transport block size, said relationship differing from a primary relationship between grant and transport block size used to determine a primary transport block size for said primary stream. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16)
- receiving a grant associated with said secondary stream; and
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14. User equipment operable to determine a transport block size for a secondary stream transmitted in addition to a primary stream by user equipment when supporting Multiple Input Multiple Output communications with a base station of a wireless telecommunications network, said user equipment comprising:
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establishing logic operable to receive a grant associated with said secondary stream; and determining logic operable to determine a transport block size for said secondary stream in accordance with a relationship between grant and transport block size, said relationship differing from a primary relationship between grant and transport block size used to determine a primary transport block size for said primary stream.
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