Patent ID: 6961349
Filing Date: 2005-11-01
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A radio access network which supports plural TCP connections across a radio interface with a user equipment unit (UE), the radio access network comprising: at least one base station node which communicates across the radio interface with the user equipment unit (UE); a radio network control node (RNC) connected to the base station node for controlling the base station node; a radio link control (RLC) entity which processes RLC protocol data units obtained from a medium access control (MAC) layer to obtain Internet Protocol (IP) packets for the plural TCP connections, and which uses availability of Internet Protocol (IP) packets for a given TCP connection to control separately for the given TCP connection in-sequence delivery to an Internet Protocol layer of Internet Protocol (IP) packets without regard to availability of Internet Protocol (IP) packets of another of the plural TCP connections.