Patent ID: 7123596
Filing Date: 2006-10-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A process for sending plural sets of data on an uplink dedicated transport channel including successive sub-frames from a mobile station to a base station of a wireless communication network, said process comprising: implementing a SAW ARQ (stop-and-wait Automatic Repeat Request) process in which each set of data to be transmitted is split into packets that are transmitted in sub-frames, and a next packet is transmitted only when a response for a previous packet is received by the mobile station; defining plural SAW channels, each SAW channel including a sub-set of sub-frames regularly time spaced in the uplink dedicated transport channel; for each set of data, assigning a primary channel to the respective set of data; and sending the packets of the respective set of data in the sub-frames of the assigned primary channel by implementing the SAW ARQ process in the primary channel.