A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may enable selection of a modulation order (Qm) parameter, a transport block size (TBS) parameter, a quantity of subframes in a transport block (NSF) parameter, and/or the like. For example, based at least in part on receiving a downlink control information or another factor, a user equipment may select, for example, a table of Qm, TBS, and NSF values and may select a particular set of a Qm value, a TBS value, and an NSF value from the table. In this way, the UE may use a higher order modulation and coding scheme in, for example, a narrowband Internet of Things deployment.