Devices and methods for reconstructing corrupted control channel bits

A method operational on a user equipment, comprising:

• receiving a control channel transmission comprising a plurality of information bits and a plurality of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits;
• determining that a contiguous segment of the information bits is corrupt;
• and
• reconstructing the contiguous segment of corrupt information bits by utilizing the received CRC bits and uncorrupted information bits.

A user equipment, comprising:

• means for receiving a control channel transmission comprising a plurality of information bits and a plurality of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits;
• means for determining that a contiguous segment of the information bits is corrupt;
• and
• means for reconstructing the contiguous segment of corrupt information bits by utilizing the received CRC bits and received uncorrupted information bits.

A processor-readable storage medium, comprising programming for causing a processing circuit to:

• receive a control channel transmission comprising a plurality of information bits and a plurality of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits;
• determine that a contiguous segment of the information bits is corrupt;
• and
• reconstruct the contiguous segment of corrupt information bits by utilizing the received CRC bits and received uncorrupted information bits.