Granted Patent B2

US 8,310,933 · App. 10/579,602 · Granted Nov 13, 2012

Abstract

Claims (67)

1. A method for a wireless system adapted to transfer data in radio packets over an air interface, the method comprising:

obtaining information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period at the latest when the reporting period has expired,

obtaining a number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period,

adapting an indication about said number of correctly decoded transport blocks into a transferable form on a basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks, wherein the adapting comprises truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and

sending said indication over the air interface.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks is determined on the basis of transport blocks in which a cyclic redundancy check is used.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks is determined on the basis of transport blocks associated with active transport channels.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein only a subset of all transport channels in a transport format combination set is taken into account.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks is determined on the basis of the maximum number of active transport channels in a transport format combination of a transport format combination set on a dedicated physical subchannel.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one transport format combination for signalling is omitted from both the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period and the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein in obtaining the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period only the transport blocks in which a cyclic redundancy check is used are counted in, said counted in transport blocks considered as correctly decoded according to the cyclic redundancy check thereof.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein in obtaining the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period all the received transport blocks are considered as correctly decoded provided that there is no transport format combination in a transport format combination set comprising at least one active transport channel utilizing a cyclic redundancy check.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein said adapting comprises a non-linear mapping.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the system utilizes a flexible layer one in data transfer.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the system utilizes a GSM/EDGE radio access network.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication is sent in a nbr rcvd block parameter.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reporting period is a slow associated control channel reporting period, and the slow associated control channel is the channel on which the indication is transferred.

14. An apparatus operable in a wireless system adapted to transfer data in radio packets over an air interface, said apparatus comprising a processing unit and a memory comprising a computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processing unit, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:

obtain information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period, at the latest when the reporting period has expired,

obtain the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period,

adapt an indication about said number of correctly decoded transport blocks into a transferable form on a basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks, wherein the adapted indication comprises truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and

send said indication over the air interface.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein adapting an indication is selected from the group of: truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and a non-linear mapping.

16. The apparatus of claim 14 , adapted to determine the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks on the basis of the maximum number of active transport channels in a transport format combination of a transport format combination set on a dedicated physical subchannel.

17. The apparatus of claim 14 , adapted to take into account only the transport blocks utilizing a cyclic redundancy check in the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period.

18. The apparatus of claim 14 , adapted to omit at least one transport format combination for signalling from both the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period and the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period.

19. The apparatus of claim 14 , adapted to consider the transport blocks as correctly decoded according to the cyclic redundancy check.

20. The apparatus of claim 14 , adapted to consider the received transport blocks as correctly decoded provided that there is no transport format combination in a transport format combination set including at least one active transport channel utilizing a cyclic redundancy check.

21. The apparatus of claim 14 that is a mobile terminal.

22. The apparatus of claim 14 that utilizes a flexible layer one in data reception.

23. The apparatus of claim 14 that is operable in a GSM/EDGE radio access network.

24. The apparatus of claim 14 that utilizes a slow associated control channel to sent the indication.

25. An apparatus operable in a wireless system adapted to transfer data in radio packets over an air interface, said apparatus comprising a processing means unit and a memory comprising a computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processing unit, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:

obtain information about a maximum number of transport blocks transferred to a terminal over the air interface during a reporting period at the latest when the reporting period has expired,

receive an indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period by the terminal, wherein the received indication comprises truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and,

on a basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of transport blocks transferred to a terminal and the received indication, determine the actual number of correctly decoded transport blocks.

26. The apparatus of claim 25 that is a base station, a base station controller, or a combination of a base station and a base station controller.

27. The apparatus of claim 25 that is operable in a GSM/EDGE radio access network.

28. The apparatus of claim 25 , adapted to receive the indication on a slow associated control channel.

29. The method of claim 25 , wherein the indication is received on a slow associated control channel.

30. A non-transitory medium tangibly encoded with a computer executable program configured to execute, when the computer executable program is run by a processor, a method for a wireless system adapted to transfer data in radio packets over an air interface with instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

obtaining information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period at the latest when the reporting period has expired,

obtaining a number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period,

adapting an indication about said number of correctly decoded transport blocks into a transferable form on a basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks, wherein the adapting comprises truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and

sending said indication over an air interface.

31. A method for a wireless system adapted to transfer data in radio packets over an air interface, the method comprising:

obtaining information about a maximum number of transport blocks transferred to a terminal over the air interface during a reporting period at the latest when the reporting period has expired,

receiving an indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period by the terminal, wherein the received indication comprises truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and,

on a basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of transport blocks transferred to a terminal and the received indication, determining the actual number of correctly decoded transport blocks.

32. The method of claim 31 , wherein the system utilizes a GSM/EDGE radio access network.

33. A non-transitory medium tangibly encoded with a computer executable program configured to execute, when the computer executable program is run by a processor, a method for a wireless system adapted to transfer data in radio packets over an air interface with instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

obtaining information about a maximum number of transport blocks transferred to a terminal over an air interface during a reporting period at the latest when the reporting period has expired,

receiving an indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period by the terminal, wherein the received indication comprises truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and,

on a basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of transport blocks transferred to a terminal and the received indication, determining the actual number of correctly decoded transport blocks.

34. A method for a wireless system adapted to transfer data in radio packets over an air interface, the method comprising:

obtaining information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period,

obtaining a number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period,

adapting an indication about said number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period into a transferable form on the basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, wherein said adapting comprises truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and

sending said indication about said number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period over the air interface.

35. A method for a wireless system adapted to transfer data in radio packets over an air interface, the method comprising:

obtaining information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period,

obtaining a number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period,

adapting an indication about said number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period into a transferable form on the basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and

sending said indication about said number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period over the air interface,

wherein when the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks comprises a value of about 64 to about 96, said adapting comprises truncation of two bits of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period,

wherein when the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks comprises a value of about 32 to about 63, said adapting comprises truncation of one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and

wherein when the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks comprises a value of about 0 to about 31, said adapting comprises a direct binary representation without truncation.

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