Method of interlacing frames
View Patent ↗A method of wireless communication. The method includes the step of transmitting at least one sub-frame associated with a first frame using at least a first wireless resource, such as a channelization code, a channelization tone and/or an allocated power transmit level. The method also includes the step of transmitting at least one sub-frame associated with a second frame. The sub-frame associated with the second frame may use at least a second wireless resource if a non-acknowledgement message associated with the first frame is received. However, if an acknowledgement message associated with the first frame is received, the sub-frame associated with the second frame may use at least the first and second wireless resources. Both first and second frames, and the sub-frames associated thereto may be assigned to a single user to reduce potential delay in real-time wireless services, such as voice, video or wireless gaming, for example.
1. A method of wireless communication comprising:
transmitting a first sub-frame associated with a first frame using a first wireless resource;
receiving at least one an acknowledgment message and a non-acknowledgment message in response to transmitting the first sub-frame associated with the first frame;
transmitting a first sub-frame associated with a second frame using the first wireless resource and a second wireless resource when an acknowledgement message is received in response to transmitting the first sub-frame associated with the first frame; and
transmitting a second sub-frame associated with the first frame using the first wireless resource and transmitting the first sub-frame associated with the second frame using the second wireless resource when a non-acknowledgement message is received in response to transmitting the first sub-frame associated with the first frame.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first and second least wireless resources comprise at least one of a channelization code, a channelization tone and an allocate transmit power level.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second sub-frame of the first frame using the first wireless resource is transmitted concurrently with the transmitting of the first sub-frame from the second frame using the second wireless resource in response to receiving the non-acknowledgement message associated with the first sub-frame associated with the first frame.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein at least one of the first and second frames comprises a plurality of incrementally redundant sub-frames.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein at least one of the first and second frames comprises at least one do-not-transmit sub-frame.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the first and second frames are assigned to a single user.
7. The method of claim 4 , comprising:
transmitting a subsequent sub-frame of the plurality of incrementally redundant sub-frames of the first frame in response to a non-acknowledgment message associated with a most recently transmitted sub-frame of the first frame.
8. The method of claim 7 , comprising:
terminating the transmitting of remaining sub-frames of the plurality of incrementally redundant sub-frames of the first frame in response to receiving an acknowledgement message associated with a most recently transmitted sub-frame of the first frame.
9. The method of claim 3 , comprising:
transmitting at least one sub-frame from a subsequent frame using at least the first wireless resource if a non-acknowledgement message associated with the second frame is received, and using at least the first and the second wireless resources if an acknowledgement message associated with the second frame is received.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the acknowledgement message associated with the second frame is received in response to the receipt of one the incrementally redundant sub-frames of the second frame.
11. The method of claim 3 , wherein at least one of the first and second frames comprises at least one of a voice sub-frame, a video sub-frame and a wireless gaming sub-frame.
12. A method of wireless communication comprising:
transmitting at least one of an acknowledgement message and a non-acknowledgement message indicating whether a first sub-frame associated with a first frame was received using a first wireless resource;
receiving a first sub-frame associated with a second frame using the first wireless resource and a second wireless resource when an acknowledgement message is transmitted; and
receiving a second sub-frame associated with the first frame using the first wireless resource and receiving the first subframe associated with the second frame using the second wireless resource when a non-acknowledgement message is transmitted.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the first and second least wireless resources comprise at least one of a channelization code, a channelization tone and an allocate transmit power level.
14. The method of claim 13 , comprising at least one of:
receiving the first sub-frame associated with the first frame using at least the first wireless resource; and
failing to receive any sub-frames associated with the first frame before timing out.
15. The method of claim 14 , comprising:
awaiting reception of the second sub-frame of a plurality of sub-frames associated with the first frame using at least the first wireless resource in response to transmitting the non-acknowledgement message associated with the first frame.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the second sub-frame of the first frame is received concurrently with the receiving of the first sub-frame from the second frame using the second wireless resource in response to transmitting the non-acknowledgement message associated with the first frame.
17. The method of claim 16 , wherein at least one of plurality of sub-frames associated with the first and second frames comprises a plurality of incrementally redundant sub-frames.
18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the first and second frames are assigned to a single user.
19. The method of claim 17 , comprising:
awaiting reception of a subsequent sub-frame of the plurality of incrementally redundant sub-frames of the first frame in response to a non-acknowledgment message associated with a most recently received sub-frame of the first frame.
20. The method of claim 15 , comprising:
receiving one sub-frame of a plurality of sub-frames associated with a subsequent frame using at least the first wireless resource if a non-acknowledgement message associated with the second frame is transmitted, and using at least the first and the second wireless resources if an acknowledgement message associated with the second frame is transmitted.
21. The method of claim 20 , wherein the acknowledgement message associated with the second frame is transmitted in response to the receipt of one the incrementally redundant sub-frames of the second frame.
22. The method of claim 16 , wherein at least one of the first and second frames comprises at least one of a voice sub-frame, a video sub-frame and a wireless gaming sub-frame.