In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, comprising a processor configured to determine a total number of soft channel bits, a first number associated with hybrid automatic retransmit request processes and a second number associated with hybrid automatic retransmit request processes; and the processor further configured to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition based at least in part on the total number of soft channel bits, the first number associated with hybrid automatic retransmit request processes and the second number associated with hybrid automatic retransmit request processes, is disclosed.