A system and method is provided for communicating in a wireless communication system which supports link adaptation or link adaptation and incremental redundancy. The invention provides link adaptation at multiple code rate by dividing fixed length RLC blocks into coded sub-blocks. CRC code may be appended...http://www.google.de/patents/US6895057?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6895057 - System and method for wireless communication supporting link adaptation and incremental redundancy