Patent ID: 8705393
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A reference terminal in a communication system having a plurality of terminals, the reference terminal comprising: response indexes (RIs) of the plurality of terminals that are transmitted to the plurality of terminals in at least one spatio-temporal stream, the RIs comprising information associated with a transmission sequence of responses to be transmitted by the plurality of terminals, wherein: each of the plurality of terminals is configured to increase a packet count based on a response, to the transmitted stream, transmitted from another terminal, the response is transmitted from a response terminal having an RI corresponding to the packet count, and if the response is not received from the response terminal, the reference terminal is configured to transmit, to at least one of the plurality of terminals, a filling packet (FP) comprising information to set the packet count to correspond to the RI of the response terminal.