Delay-reduced stall avoidance mechanism for reordering a transport block

a transport block and delay-reducing technology, applied in error prevention, digital transmission, data switching networks, etc., can solve the problems of significant transmission delay, multi-channel saw arq mechanism stalling, in-sequence reception of data blocks at the receiver cannot be assured, etc., to reduce the transmission delay and avoid stalling

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-03-23
NOKIA SOLUTIONS & NETWORKS OY
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[0012] The present invention uses timer and window based stall avoidance mechanisms similar to those used for (HSDPA) (Ref 3GPP TS 25.321 V5.3.0) for the E-DCH due to the introduction of a multiple-channel Stop And Wait Automatic Repeat reQuest (N-channel SAW ARQ). The present invention allows the receiver window to be adapted to the transmitter window by having a more stringent and accurate setting of the stall timer. The timer is activated when a correctly decoded data block is received before a missing data block of a lower-sequence number than the correctly decoded data block. The receiver sets the stall timer initial value dynamically at the moment of activation, based on the prior art rules, but additionally takes the number of reception attempts of the correctly decoded data block into account. Based on this indication, a more stringent timer setting is determined which reduces the transmission delay while still avoiding stalling.
[0027] The invention will reduce the delays in specific cases where the RLC PDUs in the correctly decoded TBs would unnecessarily wait for a missing TB (stall situation) until the timer triggers.

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However, the implementation of the multi-channel SAW ARQ mechanism at L1 / MAC layer for the E-DCH may cause a different number of transmission attempts to be required for each data block so that the in-sequence reception of the data blocks at the receiver cannot be assured.
Protocol stalling of the multi-channel SAW ARQ mechanism is a know problem when used in a wireless channel.
However, the timer mechanism can cause significant transmission delays.
One drawback of the timer mechanism is that it will sometimes add unnecessary delay to the Protocol Data Unit (PDU) delivery to the RLC layer, degrading the performance in terms of Service Data Unit (SDU) delay and throughput.
However, there are cases where the timer is active and runs in wait for a missing block that will actually never be retransmitted.
This situation adds unnecessary delay to the RLC selective ARQ that could have received the correctly buffered data much before and could therefore produce an earlier RLC STATUS PDU to require the RLC retransmission of the missing data.
In such a situation, the number of RLC data blocks (i.e. RLC PDUs) delayed may be very large, because the data blocks may be large in size and several correctly decoded data blocks may wait for a single missing data block to appear.

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[0050]FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an example of a network in which the present invention is implemented. A Radio Access Network (RAN) 100 includes a User Equipment (UE) 110 in communication with at least one base station, i.e., Node B 120, of a plurality of base stations such as Node Bs 120. Each of the Node Bs 120 is connected to a Radio Network Controller (RNC) 130 which is connected to a core network 150. The RNCs 130 communicate with each other and are, e.g., responsible for handover decisions. The present invention relates to uplink transmissions and includes transmissions from a UE 110 to a Node B and transmissions from a Node B 120 to an RNC 130. Each of the UE 110, Node B 120, and RNC 130 include processors for processing data as described below. The processors may include specifically designed hardware or may be arranged to run programs for performing the functions described below.

[0051]FIG. 2 shows allocations for the first through fifth transmissions of three synchr...

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A method for implementing a stall avoidance mechanism during uplink transmission of data blocks from transmitter to a receiver includes first determining a missing data block in response to a successful receipt of a received data block at the receiver. Once the missing data block is determined, the receiver requests retransmission of the missing data block. The receiver starts a timer when the request for retransmission is made such that the timer has a time value based on the number of reception attempts of the received data block made by the receiver.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 611,005 which was filed on Sep. 17, 2004.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The present invention relates to a method for implementing timer-based stall avoidance for High Speed Uplink Packet Access. [0004] 2. Description of the Related Art [0005] The High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), which is also referred to as Enhanced uplink Dedicated Channel (E-DCH), is a work item in the 3GPP RAN standardization to define the enhanced uplink transport of the WCDMA [Ref. 3GPP TS25.309 V6.1.0 (2004-12)]. One of the key targets of the concept is to reduce the packet delays over the air interface. Novel physical and Media Access Control (MAC) layer functionalities at the terminal, Node B, and RNC are proposed for the E-DCH. Fast L1 / MAC retransmissions using a multiple channel Stop and Wait (SAW) Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) mechanism is one of ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04L12/56
CPCH04L1/1803H04L1/1841H04L1/1848H04L47/10H04L69/324H04L47/34H04W28/04H04L69/28H04L47/14H04W28/02H04W8/04
Inventor MANUEL, GREGORYRINNE, MIKA P.
Owner NOKIA SOLUTIONS & NETWORKS OY
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