The UE 115-a may receive the PDCCH scheduling message by identifying a control format indicator and establishes a size of the downlink control region and locations of common and UE-specific search spaces. Within each search space, the UE 115-a identifies possible PDCCH candidates, which are control channel elements where the base station 105-a might have transmitted the DCI. The UE 115-a then attempts to process each PDCCH candidate, using the new dedicated RNTI. If the UE 115-a identifies that a decoded CRC bit of a PDCCH candidate matches the new dedicated RNTI, the UE 115-a may process (e.g. decode, unscramble) the corresponding DCI message. For example, the UE 115-a may unscramble the DCI carrying the uplink grant 215 and determine that the CRC of the DCI includes the dedicated RNTI and/or the C-RNTI. As a result, the UE 115-a may determine an MCS of the uplink grant 215 based on the new dedicated RNTI and/or the C-RNTI. For example, the UE 115-a may determine that the uplink grant 215 uses an allowable MCS from at least one of the allowable MCS tables indicated in the LCP configuration 210 for a corresponding logical channel of the uplink grant 215.