US Patent 11356193 Rate matching and HARQ with irregular modulation

A method and system for rate matching in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving K information bits at a channel encoder and generating N output bits. The N output bits may be interleaved by an interleaver. In a HARQ retransmission the output bits may be placed into a circular buffer. The N output bits may be divided into two or more parts comprising at least a first part and a second part. The method further comprises mapping a first part of one or more parts of the N output bits to a M