Facilitating retransmission of data packets in a packet radio communication system by utilizing a feedback acknowledgment scheme
US7911954B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 22, 2006 |
| Grant date | Mar 22, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 28, 2029 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W80/02
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Apparatus, and an associated method, for a frame-formatted radio communication system. Coordination is provided between MAC and RLP layers of a sending station through use of apparatus embodied at the MAC layer of the sending station. Also, apparatus is provided at a receiving station to reduce the generation of RLP layer NAK during segmented RLP frame retransmissions.
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