Method and a Device for Improved Status Reports

US 20100014466A1
Filed: 01/28/2008
Published: 01/21/2010
Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2007
Status: Active Grant

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The invention discloses a method (700) for a cellular system (100), in which traffic can be exchanged between first (110, 120) and second (110, 120) transceivers. The traffic is sent in data units, each of which is given an identifier, and which data units may be divided into segments. A receiving transceiver (110, 120) may send status information in data frames or data units (200, 300) about properly received, partially received, or non-received data units to a sending transceiver, i.e. the transceiver from which the data was sent. In the case (705) of partially or non-received data units, the status information includes (710) information about whether the data unit or units were non-received or partially received, and in the case of one or more partially received data units, which (715) parts of those data units that were not received.

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25. A method for use in a cellular communications system comprising:
- receiving data at a receiving transceiver in the system, said data sent from a sending transceiver in the system, and wherein said data is sent in data units, each of which data unit is given an identifier, and which data units are divided into segments;
  
  sending status information in data frames or data units from the receiving transceiver to the sending transceiver, about properly received, partially received, or non-received data units; and
  
  wherein sending said status information comprises sending a message comprising;
  
  data acknowledging properly received data units or frames in the form of a certain sequence number;
  
  a first extension indicator;
  
  data regarding a non-received or partially received data unit or frame, in the form of a certain sequence number;
  
  a second extension indicator, indicating whether the data unit or units were non-received or partially received; and
  
  , in the case of one or more partially received data units, which parts of those data units that were not received, and further wherein said first extension indicator indicates the absence or presence of another set comprising said first and second extension indicators and data regarding a non-received or partially received data unit or frame in the form of the identifier of said data unit or frame.
- View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
- - 26. The method of claim 25, according to which the information about whether or not a data unit was partially or non-received is included as a flag in said data frames or data units.
  - 27. The method of claim 25, according to which the information about which parts of a data unit that were not received is included in said data frames or data units as information which indicates a first and a last part of the non-received data unit.
  - 28. The method of claim 25, according to which, if a data frame or unit from the sending transceiver has been segmented and a last segment has not reached the receiving transceiver, this can be indicated by the receiving transceiver to the sending transceiver.
  - 29. The method of claim 28, according to which said indication about a missing segment is carried out by means of a special predefined value for the information about the last part of the missing segment.
  - 30. The method of claim 25, according to which the information about which parts of a partially received data unit that were not received is included in said data frames or data units as information which indicates the identifier of the data unit, as well as information about the beginning of the non-received data in said data unit, and the amount of non-received data.
  - 31. The method of claim 25, wherein the system comprises an E-UTRAN system.
  - 32. The method of claim 31, wherein said data unit is an RLC POU, such that said segments are RLC PDU segments.
  - 33. The method of claim 32, wherein the sending transceiver is an eNodeB of a E-UTRAN cell, and the receiving transceiver is a User Equipment (UE) of the E-UTRAN cell.
  - 34. The method of claim 32, wherein the sending transceiver is a User Equipment (UE) of an E-UTRAN cell, and the receiving transceiver is an eNodeB of the E-UTRAN cell.
  - 35. The method of claim 25, wherein the message comprises one or more of the following:
    - information identifying the message as being a data or control message;
      
      information identifying the message as a status type message, at least for control messages; and
      
      information about the beginning and end of non-received data.
  - 36. The method of claim 35, wherein said second extension indicator indicates the absence or presence of information about the beginning and end of non-received data.

37. A transceiver for use in a cellular communications system, said transceiver comprising:
- means for sending traffic to and receiving traffic from a second transceiver in the system, including means for sending said traffic in data units, and means for giving each of said data units an identifier, as well as means for dividing said data units into segments;
  
  means for sending status information in data frames or data units about properly received, partially received or non-received data units to said second transceiver, including means for, in the case of one or more non-received or partially received data units, sending the status information as a message comprising;
  
  data acknowledging properly received data units or frames in the form of a certain sequence number;
  
  a first extension indicator;
  
  data regarding a non-received or partially received data unit or frame, in the form of a certain sequence number;
  
  a second extension indicator, indicating whether the data unit or units were non-received or partially received; and
  
  , in the case of one or more partially received data units, which parts of those data units that were non-received; and
  
  wherein said first extension indicator indicates the absence or presence of a set comprising another of said first and second extension indicators and data regarding a partially or non-received unit or frame in the form of the identifier of said data unit or frame.
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- - 38. The transceiver of claim 37, including means for including the information about whether or not a data unit was partially or non-received as a flag in said data frames or data units.
  - 39. The transceiver of claim 37, including means for including the information about which parts of a data unit that were non-received in said data frames or data units as information which indicates a first and a last part of the non-received data unit.
  - 40. The transceiver of claim 37, including means for, if a data frame or unit from the sending transceiver has been segmented and a last segment has not reached the receiving transceiver, indicating this to the sending transceiver.
  - 41. The transceiver of claim 40, in which said indication about a missing segment is carried out by means of using a special predefined value for the information about the last part of the missing segment.
  - 42. The transceiver of claim 37, including means for including the information about information about which parts of a partially received data unit that were not received in said data frames or data units as information which indicates the identifier of the data unit, as well as information about the beginning of the non-received data in said data unit, and the amount of non-received data.
  - 43. The transceiver of claim 37, wherein the transceiver is configured for operation in a E-UTRAN system.
  - 44. The transceiver of claim 43, wherein said data unit is an RLC PDU, such that said segments are RLC PDU segments.
  - 45. The transceiver of claim 43, wherein the transceiver comprises an eNodeB of the E-UTRAN system.
  - 46. The transceiver of claim 43, wherein the transceiver comprises a User Equipment (UE) of the E-UTRAN system.
  - 47. The transceiver of claim 37, including means for sending status information to a sending transceiver as a message comprising one or more of the following:
    - information identifying the message as a data or control message;
      
      information identifying the message as a status type message, at least for control messages; and
      
      information about the beginning and end of non-received segments.
  - 48. The transceiver of claim 47, wherein said second extension indicator indicates the absence or presence of information about the beginning and end of non-received data.

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Current Assignee
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
Original Assignee
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
Inventors
Torsner, Johan, Wiemann, Henning, Meyer, Michael

Granted Patent

US 8,036,150 B2
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370/328
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H04L 1/1621   Group acknowledgement, i.e....

H04L 1/165   Variable formats

H04L 1/1671   the supervisory signal bein...

H04L 5/0055   Physical resource allocatio...

H04W 72/20   Control channels or signall...

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