APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR LENGTHENING DATA COMMUNICATED IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH PADDING BYTES

摘要

Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating transmission of block-- formatted data by an EDGE-capable mobile station. When the mobile station is instructed to use an MCS-8 modulation coding scheme, in initial transmission of the data, the mobile station determines the amount of data that is to be transmitted. If only a single RLC block is to be transmitted at MCS-8, MCS-6 is instead utilized. And, padding bytes are added to the MCS-6 data blocks.