Method and apparatus for associating a packet with an H-ARQ channel identifier

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9306709-B2
Application number	US-19707408-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 22, 2008
Priority date	Sep 14, 2007
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

A method in a base station of transmitting control information to a mobile station includes transmitting a persistent assignment to a mobile station, wherein the persistent assignment includes a plurality of ACID indications; and transmitting a subsequent assignment to the mobile station including an ACID derived from the plurality of ACID indications. In another method, a mobile station receives control information from a base station, including receiving a persistent assignment from the base station, wherein the persistent assignment includes a plurality of ACID indications; and receiving a subsequent assignment from the base station including an ACID derived from the plurality of ACID indications.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
establishing a control channel between a base station and a mobile station; and
transmitting, by the base station, a single persistent assignment to the mobile station using the control channel, the single persistent assignment allocating a recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station over a series of frames, wherein multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) channel identifiers are transmitted as part of the single persistent assignment, wherein different H-ARQ channel identifiers are associated with different packets within a data stream.

2. A method comprising:
establishing a control channel between a mobile station and a base station; and
receiving, by the mobile station, a single persistent assignment from the base station over the control channel, the single persistent assignment allocating a recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station over a series of frames, wherein multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) channel identifiers are included as part of the single persistent assignment, and wherein different H-ARQ channel identifiers are associated with different packets within a data stream.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the recurring time-frequency resource is a sub-frame index corresponding to at least one sub-frame in each frame of the series of frames.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the single persistent assignment is communicated once to allocate the recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station such that the single persistent assignment is not re-communicated to assign subsequent instances of the recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the single persistent assignment assigns a series of downlink timeslots to the mobile station, the series of downlink timeslots including at least one timeslot in each frame in the series of frames, and
wherein the single persistent assignment is communicated once such that the single persistent assignment is not re-communicated to allocate subsequent timeslots in the series of downlink timeslots.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein the single persistent assignment assigns a series of uplink transmission opportunities to the mobile station, the series of uplink transmission opportunities including at least one uplink transmission opportunity in each frame in the series of frames, and
wherein the single persistent assignment is communicated once such that the single persistent assignment is not re-communicated to allocate subsequent uplink transmission opportunities in the series of uplink transmission opportunities.

7. The method of claim 2 , wherein the base station assigns different ones of the multiple H-ARQ channel identifiers to different instances of the recurring time-frequency resource by virtue of including the multiple H-ARQ channel identifiers as part of the single persistent assignment.

8. A mobile station comprising:
a processor; and
a computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions to:
establish a control channel between the mobile station and a base station; and
receive a single persistent assignment from the base station over the control channel, the single persistent assignment allocating a recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station over a series of frames, wherein multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) channel identifiers are included in the single persistent assignment, wherein different H-ARQ channel identifiers are associated with different packets within a data stream.

9. The mobile station of claim 8 , wherein the recurring time-frequency resource is a sub-frame index corresponding to at least one sub-frame in each frame of the series of frames.

10. The mobile station of claim 8 , wherein the single persistent assignment is communicated once to allocate the recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station such that the single persistent assignment is not re-communicated to assign subsequent instances of the recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station.

11. The mobile station of claim 8 , wherein the base station assigns different ones of the multiple H-ARQ channel identifiers to different instances of the recurring time-frequency resource by virtue of including the multiple H-ARQ channel identifiers as part of the single persistent assignment.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the recurring time-frequency resource is a sub-frame index corresponding to at least one sub-frame in each frame of the series of frames.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the single persistent assignment is transmitted once to assign the recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station such that the single persistent assignment is not re-transmitted to assign subsequent instances of the recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the single persistent assignment assigns a series of downlink timeslots to the mobile station, the series of downlink timeslots including at least one timeslot in each frame in the series of frames, and
wherein the single persistent assignment is transmitted once to assign the recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station such that the single persistent assignment is not re-transmitted to assign subsequent timeslots in the series of downlink timeslots.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the single persistent assignment assigns a series of uplink transmission opportunities to the mobile station, the series of uplink transmission opportunities including at least one uplink transmission opportunity in each frame in the series of frames, and
wherein the single persistent assignment is transmitted once to assign the series of uplink transmission opportunities to the mobile station such that the single persistent assignment is not re-transmitted to assign subsequent uplink transmission opportunities in the series of uplink transmission opportunities.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the base station assigns different ones of the multiple H-ARQ channel identifiers to different instances of the recurring time-frequency resource by virtue of transmitting the multiple H-ARQ channel identifiers as part of the single persistent assignment.

17. A base station comprising:
a processor; and
a computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions to:
establish a control channel between the base station and a mobile station; and
transmit a single persistent assignment to the mobile station using the control channel, the single persistent assignment allocating a recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station over a series of frames, wherein multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) channel identifiers are transmitted as part of the single persistent assignment, and wherein different H-ARQ channel identifiers are associated with different packets within a data stream.

18. The base station of claim 17 , wherein the recurring time-frequency resource is a sub-frame index corresponding to at least one sub-frame in each frame of the series of frames.

19. The base station of claim 17 , wherein the single persistent assignment is communicated once to allocate the recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile station such that the single persistent assignment is not re-communicated to assign subsequent instances of the recurring time-frequency resource to the mobile s

Assignees

• Mcbeath Sean Michael
• Soong Anthony C K
• Futurewei Technologies Inc

Inventors

• Mcbeath Sean Michael
• Soong Anthony C K

Classifications

• H04L1/1812

  Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ] · CPC title

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04L1/1887 Primary

  Scheduling and prioritising arrangements · CPC title

• H04W72/0446

  Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames · CPC title

• H04W72/042

  Electricity · mapped topic