Patent ID: 11910233
Assignee: FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A mobile communication network, comprising:
a radio access network comprising a plurality of cells, the radio access network being configured to serve a user equipment within a cell,
wherein, to provide a data packet to the user equipment, the radio access network is configured to provide a plurality of different versions of the data packet and to transmit the plurality of different versions of the data packet to the user equipment in parallel via different physical resources, and/or
wherein, to provide a data packet to the radio access network, the user equipment is configured to provide a plurality of different versions of the data packet and to transmit the plurality of different versions of the data packet to the radio access network in parallel via different physical resources,
wherein the plurality of different versions of the data packet are acquired by performing a packet redundancy/duplication, and
wherein the user equipment (UE) is configured to send or receive for the plurality of different versions of the data packet
a single ACK/NACK message, or
only a NACK message,
wherein the single ACK/NACK message includes information about which physical resource provided an ACK and which physical resource provided a NACK.