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US 8,751,893 · App. 13/849,082 · Granted Jun 10, 2014

Synchronous hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol employing a first information element indicating whether to perform retransmission of an uplink data packet and a second information element indicates modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the retransmission

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,751,893
App. No.
13/849,082
Filed
Mar 22, 2013
Granted
Jun 10, 2014
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2112
USPC
714/751
Abstract

A base station receives an uplink data packet from a user equipment based on a synchronous hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol, and transmits a first information element and a second information element in parallel to the user equipment. The first information element indicates whether to perform a retransmission of the uplink data packet, and the second information element indicates modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the retransmission. The base station receives the retransmission from the user equipment according to the modulation and coding scheme. The first information element is for example an ACK/NACK feedback message.

Claims (10)

1. A method comprising the following steps performed by a user equipment:

transmitting an uplink data packet to a base station based on a synchronous hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol,

receiving a first information element and a second information element in parallel from the base station, wherein the first information element is an ACK/NACK message and the second information element indicates a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for a retransmission, and

transmitting the retransmission to the base station according to the modulation and coding scheme.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first information element indicates whether to perform the retransmission of the uplink data packet.

3. A user equipment comprising:

a transmitter section that transmits an uplink data packet to a base station on a synchronous hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol, and

a receiver section that receives a first information element and a second in-formation element in parallel from a base station, wherein the first information element is an ACK/NACK message, and the second information element indi-cates a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for a retransmission,

wherein the transmitter section transmits the retransmission to the base station according to the modulation and coding scheme.

4. The user equipment according to the claim 3 , wherein the first information element indicates whether to perform the retransmission of the uplink data packet.