Transport Block Size Signaling for Semi-Persistent Scheduling

A user agent, comprising:

• a processor configured to promote the user agent receiving a first data element from an access device specifying at least one first transport block size, deriving a second transport block size based on a second data element received from the access device, comparing the first transport block size with the second transport block size, and when the first transport block size differs from the second transport block size, ignoring the received semi-persistent scheduling activation/reactivation data.

An access device, comprising:

• a processor configured to promote transmission to a user agent of a first data element specifying at least one first transport block size, the processor further configured to promote transmission of a second data element including information useable by the user agent to derive a second transport block size by comparing the first transport block size with the second transport block size, and such that the user agent ignores the received semi-persistent scheduling activation/reactivation data when the first transport block size differs from the second transport block size.