Methods and devices in a wireless communication system are provided. Information on a number of code block group per transport block (TB) is received from a base station. Each code block group includes at least one code block. A TB and control information scheduling the TB are received from the base station. Code block groups for the TB are identified based on a number of code blocks for the TB and the information. The number of the code blocks for the TB being determined based on the control information. The TB is decoded based on the identified code block groups. Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information is transmitted to the base station based on a result of the decoding.