Time monitoring of packet retransmissions during soft handover

Details Time monitoring of packet retransmissions during soft handover Time monitoring of packet retransmissions during soft handover

2011-04-05

2011-04-05

Baker, Stephen M (Department: 2112)

Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery

Pulse or data error handling

Digital data error correction

C370S331000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07921348

ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a method for scheduling data retransmissions, a method for use in a data retransmission scheme and a method for updating a soft buffer of a base station in a mobile communication system during a soft-handover. The present invention relates to a base station executing the controlling and updating method, a communication terminal for executing the scheduling method and to a mobile communication system comprising at least one the base station and communication terminal. To prevent erroneous combining of data packets in a packet retransmission scheme at the receiver, the present invention provides a method that may flush the soft buffer region associated to a received data packet upon its correct reception. Further, a method is provided that monitors the time elapsed since the last storing of a data packet in a buffer region of a base station to be able to trigger the flush of the buffer region upon expiry of a threshold time period.

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