| CPC H04B 7/0413 (2013.01) [H04L 1/06 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A communication method, comprising:
determining v adjustment factors corresponding to v layers in multiple-input multiple-output, wherein one layer corresponds to one adjustment factor, and v is an integer greater than 1; and
performing an encoding procedure on a transport block based on the v adjustment factors, wherein the encoding procedure comprises: determining a quantity of bits of the transport block based on the v adjustment factors, performing rate matching based on the v adjustment factors, and performing layer mapping based on the v adjustment factors.
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