Patent ID: 8526397
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method in a mobile radio terminal which transmits information in transmission time intervals (TTIs) that is received by a serving base station and by one or more non-serving base stations, the method comprising: determining a number N of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions transmitted together by the mobile terminal as a TTI bundle containing two or more TTIs, where N is a positive integer greater than 1, and where an HARQ transmission includes a first transmission, one or more retransmissions of the first transmission, or both, and where each of the N HARQ transmissions in the TTI bundle corresponds to the same transport block of data associated with the same HARQ process, and providing the number N of HARQ transmissions for communication to the one or more non-serving base stations so that the one or more non-serving base stations can take the number N into account when combining HARQ transmissions received from the mobile terminal.