Transport block size driven CQI feedback scheme

1. A method of communications, comprising:

receiving, by a user equipment, a channel quality report configuration from a network node, the channel quality report configuration including a first transport block size being a target transport block size;

estimating a signal quality based on a reference signal and the first transport block size;

determining, by the user equipment, a channel quality indicator based at least on the first transport block size and the signal quality; and

transmitting, by the user equipment, the channel quality indicator to the network node.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a downlink transmission from the network node, the downlink transmission with a modulation and coding scheme determined based at least on the channel quality indicator transmitted to the network node from the user equipment.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the channel quality indicator further includes:

determining a highest channel quality indicator that satisfies a downlink transmission of the first transport block size with a target block error rate based on the signal quality.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a target block error rate is received from the network node or determined by the user equipment based at least on channel quality indicator tables including different sets of modulation and coding rate combinations.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the channel quality indicator includes a first channel indicator and a second quality indicator.

6. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the channel quality indicator is a first channel quality indicator that is determined based at least on the first transport block size included in the channel quality report configuration, and

wherein a second channel quality indicator is determined based at least on a second transport block size that is associated with a channel state information reference resource.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting of the channel quality indicator to the network node further includes:

transmitting the channel quality indicator as a first channel quality indicator and a second channel quality indicator to the network node.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the channel quality indicator is a first channel quality indicator that is encoded differentially relative to a second channel quality indicator.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the channel quality report configuration received from the network node indicates to the user equipment to determine a number of resources required to satisfy a target block error rate for the first transport block size at the user equipment.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a number of resources that satisfies a target block error rate for the first transport block size at the user equipment.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein resources are physical resource blocks.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the channel quality indicator indicates a number of resources or physical resource blocks.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving of a downlink transmission includes:

receiving the downlink transmission from the network node with a modulation and coding scheme that is determined at the network node based at least on a number of resources or physical resource blocks reported by the user equipment and/or the first transport block size.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the channel quality report configuration is received from the network node via a channel state information report configuration information element.

15. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:

receive, by a user equipment, a channel quality report configuration from a network node,

the channel quality report configuration including a first transport block size being a target transport block size;

estimate a signal quality based on a reference signal and the first transport block size;

determine, by the user equipment, a channel quality indicator based at least on the first transport block size and the signal quality; and

transmit, by the user equipment, the channel quality indicator to the network node.

16. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:

determine, by a network node, a first transport block size, the first transport block size being a target transport block size;

transmit, by the network node, a channel quality report configuration to a user equipment,

the channel quality report configuration including the first transport block size; and

receive, by the network node, a channel quality indicator from the user equipment, the channel quality indicator determined at the user equipment based at least on the first transport block size transmitted from the network node and a reference signal quality measured by the user equipment.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the apparatus to:

determine a modulation and coding scheme for a downlink transmission to the user equipment, the determining based on at least on the channel quality indicator received from the user equipment; and

send the downlink transmission using the modulation and coding scheme to the user equipment.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the first transport block size is received from a core network or determined by the network node based at least on prior transmissions to the user equipment.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the first transport block size is received by the network node from a core network via time sensitive communications assistance information.