Patent ID: 9548838
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: defining, in a communications apparatus, a link-independent hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ entity for one link direction, wherein the defined entity comprises a resource allocation for one or more of forward link and reverse link data, the resource allocation comprising at least one hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ process having a process identification, each hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ process having a unique HARQ identification, a data allocation having a predetermined timing offset with respect to the resource allocation, and a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ acknowledgement allocation having a predetermined timing offset with respect to the data allocation, wherein the timing offset of the hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ acknowledgement with respect to the data allocation is determined in terms of time division duplexing TDD frames and independently of a forward link-reverse link ratio; and performing by the communications apparatus hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ signalling in a communications system using the defined link-independent hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ entity.