Method and apparatus for versatile MAC multiplexing in evolved HSPA

1. A method for multiplexing service data units (SDUs) in a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) for transmission over a high speed-downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH), the method comprising:

creating one or more reordering PDUs, each reordering PDU including one or more reordering SDUs, wherein a reordering SDU is a complete MAC enhanced high speed (MAC-ehs) SDU or a segment of a MAC-ehs SDU;

creating a MAC-ehs header for the MAC PDU, the MAC-ehs header comprising:

a logical channel indicator (LCID) field indicating a logical channel for each of the one or more reordering SDUs;

a length indicator (LI) field indicating a length of each of the one or more reordering SDUs; and

a segmentation indication (SI) field for each of the one or more reordering PDUs indicating:

whether a first reordering SDU in the reordering PDU is a complete MAC-ehs SDU or a last segment of a MAC-ehs SDU, and

whether a last reordering SDU in the reordering PDU is a complete MAC-ehs SDU or the first segment of a MAC-ehs SDU; and

transmitting the MAC PDU.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more reordering PDUs include one or more segments of one or more MAC-ehs SDUs.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein if there is more than one reordering SDU in a reordering PDU, the SDUs belong to different logical channels.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein if there is more than one reordering SDU in a reordering PDU, the SDUs belong to different queues.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the MAC-ehs header further includes one or more padding bits to maintain timing alignment.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the MAC-ehs header further comprises:

a transmission sequence number field indicating a data sequence number for each of the one or more reordering PDUs; and

a flag field indicating a last reordering PDU for each of the one or more reordering PDUs.

7. A method for interpreting a segmentation indication (SI) field in a header of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) transmitted over a high speed-downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) the method comprising:

receiving a value of the SI field in a MAC header, the SI field corresponding to a reordering PDU;

determining whether there are more than one reordering service data units (SDUs) in the reordering PDU; and

interpreting the value of the SI field based on whether there are more than one reordering SDUs in the reordering PDU,

wherein the SI field having a value of “00” indicates that a first reordering SDU of the reordering PDU is a complete MAC enhanced high speed (MAC-ehs) SDU and a last reordering SDU of the reordering PDU is a complete MAC-ehs SDU,

wherein the SI field having a value of “01” indicates that the first reordering SDU of the reordering PDU is a last segment of a MAC-ehs SDU and, if there are more than one reordering SDUs in the reordering PDU, the last reordering SDU of the reordering PDU is a complete MAC-ehs SDU,

wherein the SI field having a value of “10” indicates that the last reordering SDU is a first segment of a MAC-ehs SDU and, if there are more than one reordering SDUs in the reordering PDU, the first reordering SDU of the reordering PDU is a complete MAC-ehs SDU, and

wherein the SI field having a value of “11” indicates that, if there is only one reordering SDU in the reordering PDU, the one reordering SDU is a middle segment of a MAC-ehs SDU, and if there are more than one reordering SDUs in the reordering PDU, the first reordering SDU of the reordering PDU is a last segment of a MAC-ehs SDU and the last reordering SDU of the reordering PDU is a first segment of a MAC-ehs SDU.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising performing disassembly of the MAC PDU based on the interpretation of the value of the SI field.

9. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the WTRU comprising:

a medium access control enhanced high speed (MAC-ehs) disassembly unit configured to disassemble a first reordering protocol data unit (PDU) into one or more reordering service data units (SDUs) using a MAC-ehs header, wherein the MAC-ehs header comprises a logical channel indicator (LCID) field, a length indicator (LI) field, and a segmentation indication (SI) field, wherein the SI field is repeated per reordering PDU, and indicates whether a first and a last of the one or more reordering SDUs in the first reordering PDU are segmented;

a MAC-ehs reassembly unit configured to reassemble a second reordering PDU using the SI field in the MAC-ehs header; and

a MAC-ehs demultiplexing unit configured to deliver the second reordering PDU to a logical channel using the LCID field in the MAC-ehs header.

10. The WTRU of claim 9 , wherein the MAC-ehs reassembly unit is further configured to deliver the reassembled second reordering PDU to the MAC-ehs demultiplexing unit.

11. The WTRU of claim 9 , wherein the MAC-ehs reassembly unit is further configured to reassemble the second reordering PDU using a SDU or a segment of a SDU stored in the MAC-ehs reassembly unit when the stored SDU or the segment of the SDU and one or more disassembled SDUs have consecutive transmission sequence number field values.

12. The WTRU of claim 11 , wherein the SDU or the segment of the SDU stored in the MAC-ehs reassembly unit is not associated with the first reordering PDU.

13. The WTRU of claim 9 , wherein the MAC-ehs reassembly unit is further configured to discard any SDUs stored in the MAC-ehs reassembly unit.

14. The WTRU of claim 9 , wherein the MAC-ehs reassembly unit is further configured to discard any SDUs stored in the MAC-ehs reassembly unit when any stored SDUs and one or more disassembled SDUs do not have consecutive transmission sequence number field values.

15. The WTRU of claim 9 , wherein the MAC-ehs reassembly unit is further configured to reassemble the second reordering PDU using one or more SDUs or segments of SDUs after a first SDU in the first reordering PDU and before a last SDU in the first reordering PDU.

16. The WTRU of claim 9 , wherein the second reordering PDU comprises all SDUs except for a last SDU in the first reordering PDU.

17. The WTRU of claim 9 , wherein the MAC-ehs header further comprises:

a transmission sequence number field indicating a data sequence number for each of the reordering PDUs; and

a flag field indicating a last reordering PDU for each of the reordering PDUs.