Patent ID: 7609702
Filing Date: 2009-10-27
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a receiver configured to receive segments of data units from a cell based network, wherein the data units are data units of a higher layer of the cell based network, and wherein the higher layer of the cell based network terminates at the apparatus; a processor configured to form transport packets out of the segments of the data units irrespective of whether a complete data unit has been received, using a segmentation/reassembly and multiplexing/demultiplexing layer of the apparatus which is introduced on top of a transport layer of the apparatus, wherein the segmentation/reassembly and multiplexing/demultiplexing layer is configured to add an indication to a segment out of the segments received, the indication configured to indicate a specific data unit to which the segment belongs, and put the segment with the indication into a transport packet to be transmitted to a packet based network, wherein the segmentation/reassembly and multiplexing/demultiplexing layer is configured to repeat these processes for each of the segments received, thereby forming the transport packets; and a transmitter configured to transmit the transport packets to the packet based network.