Method and arrangement for controlling transmission of delay sensitive data in a packet data communication network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9565673-B2
Application number	US-201214372149-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 23, 2012
Priority date	Jan 23, 2012
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

This disclosure deals with an apparatus in a base station for controlling transmission of delay-sensitive data from a transmitter over a transmission link in a packet data communication network, which transmitter is capable of changing between a TTI bundling enabled mode and a TTI bundling disabled mode. The apparatus comprises: a receiver for receiving data from the transmitter over the transmission link; a decision unit for deciding that the transmitter should change TTI bundling mode; a silent mode detection unit for detecting that the transmitter is in the silent mode; and a triggering unit for triggering change of TTI bundling mode in response to deciding that the transmitter should change TTI bundling mode and in response to detecting that the transmitter is in the silent mode. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding method.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for controlling transmission of delay-sensitive data from a transmitter over a transmission link in a packet data communication network, where the transmitter is capable of changing between a transmission time internal (TTI) bundling enabled mode and a TTI bundling disabled mode, the method comprising:
receiving data from the transmitter over the transmission link;
analyzing a quality value of the data transmitted over the transmission link;
deciding that the transmitter should change from the TTI bundling disabled mode to the TTI bundling enabled mode based on the quality value;
detecting whether the transmitter is in a silent mode, wherein the silent mode is a mode in which a service at the transmitter that generates delay-sensitive data is inactive; and
triggering change to the TTI bundling enabled mode in response to the deciding that the transmitter should change from the TTI bundling disabled mode to the TTI bundling enabled mode, but only in response to detecting that the transmitter is in the silent mode, and when detecting that the transmitter is not in the silent mode, waiting on triggering change to the TTI bundling enabled mode until the transmitter is in the silent mode.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein it is detected that the transmitter is in the silent mode by analyzing the data received from the transmitter.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the data received from the transmitter is analyzed by analyzing at least one of data packet size and time intervals between received data packets.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein it is detected that the transmitter is in the silent mode by detecting a Silence Insertion Descriptor (SID) frame or packet in the data received from the transmitter.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the analyzing the quality value of the data transmitted over the transmission link analyzes a signal to noise ratio of the data transmitted over the transmission link.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the deciding that the transmitter should change to the TTI bundling enabled mode is based on the signal to noise ratio crossing a threshold value.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the quality value relates to path loss of the transmission link.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein triggering change to the TTI bundling enable mode is performed after first deciding that the transmitter should change to the TTI bundling enable mode, and, simultaneously or later in time, detecting that the transmitter is in the silent mode.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitter is arranged in a user equipment.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method is performed in a base station.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the delay-sensitive data is Voice over IP data.

12. An apparatus for controlling transmission of delay-sensitive data from a transmitter over a transmission link in a packet data communication network, which transmitter is capable of changing between a transmission time internal (TTI) bundling enabled mode and a TTI bundling disabled mode, the apparatus comprising:
a receiver operative to receive data from the transmitter over the transmission link;
a quality detection unit to analyze a quality value of the data transmitted over the transmission link:
a decision unit operative to decide that the transmitter should change from the TTI bundling disabled mode to the TTI bundling enabled mode based on the quality value;
a silent mode detection unit operative to detect whether the transmitter is in a silent mode, wherein the silent mode is a mode in which a service at the transmitter that generates delay-sensitive data is inactive; and
a triggering unit operative to trigger change to the TTI bundling enabled mode in response from the decision unit that the transmitter should change from the TTI bundling disabled mode to the TTI bundling enabled mode, but only in response to a detection that the transmitter is in the silent mode, and when the transmitter is not in the silent mode, wait to trigger change to the TTI bundling enabled mode until the transmitter is in the silent mode.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the silent mode detection unit is operative to detect that the transmitter is in the silent mode by analyzing the data received from the transmitter.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the silent mode detection unit is operative to analyze data received from the transmitter by analyzing at least one of data packet size and time intervals between received data packets.

15. The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the silent mode detection unit is operative to detect that the transmitter is in the silent mode by detecting a Silence Insertion Descriptor (SID) frame or packet in the data received from the transmitter.

16. The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the decision unit decides to change to the TTI bundling enable mode is based on the quality value crossing a threshold value.

17. The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the quality value relates to path loss of the transmission link.

18. The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the triggering unit is operative to trigger change to the TTI bundling enabled mode after first reception of an indication from the decision unit that the transmitter should change to the TTI bundling enabled mode, and, simultaneously or later in time, receiving an indication from the silent mode detection unit that the transmitter is in the silent mode.

19. The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the apparatus is arranged in a base station.

20. The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the apparatus is operative to control transmission of data from a transmitter arranged in a user equipment.

Assignees

• Sandberg David
• Langereis Alexander
• ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M (publ)

Inventors

• Sandberg David
• Langereis Alexander

Classifications

• H04W72/542

  using measured or perceived quality · CPC title

• H04L1/08

  by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system {(H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence)} · CPC title

• H04L1/0025 Primary

  Transmission of mode-switching indication · CPC title

• H04W72/0446 Primary

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

• H04L1/0027

  Scheduling of signalling, e.g. occurrence thereof · CPC title