Method and apparatus for providing signaling of redundancy

Abstract

An approach is provided for efficient signaling of redundancy version information. A redundancy version signaling module detects the start of a system information radio transmission window and assigns a redundancy version sequence at the start of the transmission window.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method comprising:
 detecting start of a system information message transmission window;   selecting a redundancy version sequence at the start of the transmission window; and   assigning a redundancy version to subframes across the transmission window in order of transmission of the subframes and according to the selected redundancy version sequence,   wherein the assigning includes excluding uplink subframes, multi-cast subframes, and a predetermined subframe in even-numbered radio frames if the predetermined subframe is within the transmission window, and   wherein the assigning is continuous from subframes of a first radio frame to subframes of a next radio frame.