Updating next-expected TSN and receiver window to avoid stall conditions
View Patent ↗Updating the next-expected transmission sequence number (NET) or the receiver window position to ensure that the NET always falls within the receiver window range to prevent unnecessary delays in delivering data blocks in order to avoid stall conditions and achieve high speed data transmission capabilities for a high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) system.
1. An apparatus to handle received data blocks in a mobile communication system, the apparatus comprising:
a HARQ unit transmitting an Acknowledgment (ACK) or a Negative Acknowledgment (NACK) for data blocks received from a physical layer and delivering the data blocks if the data blocks have no error;
a reordering buffer receiving and delivering the data blocks for in-sequence delivery of the data blocks based on a transmission sequence number (TSN) of each data block, a next expected TSN (NET) and a receiver window having a lower edge and an upper edge; and
a disassembly disassembling the data blocks received from the reordering buffer,
wherein the receiver window is updated when the TSN of the data block is outside of the receiver window and the NET is set to the lower edge of the updated receiver window when the NET is below the updated receiver window.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the TSN is used for reordering to support in-sequence delivery.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the lower edge of the receiver window is equal to receiver window upper edge−receiver window size+1.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the receiver window is updated so that the upper edge of the receiver window is set to the TSN of a first data block not received.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein, among data blocks in the reordering buffer, data blocks beginning from a data block corresponding to the NET to a data block just before a first not received data block are delivered to the disassembly.