Patent ID: 6975650
Filing Date: 2005-12-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A user equipment for receiving data of a transport block set in a wireless communication system using adaptive modulation and coding and having a physical layer hybrid automatic repeat request mechanism, the user equipment comprising: a receiver for receiving a transport block set and determining whether the received transport block set meets a specified quality and for receiving retransmitted segments of the transport block set in subsequent transmissions, the retransmitted segments transmitted using a different modulation and coding set than the transport block set and at least two of the retransmitted segments transmitted separately, the receiver receiving segmentation information for using in combining the retransmitted segments; a hybrid automatic repeat request decoder for determining whether each received transport block set and retransmitted segments meets a specified quality; and an automatic repeat request transmitter for transmitting a repeat request when the transport block set or retransmitted segments do not meet the specified quality; and wherein the receiver receiving the segmentation information is prior to the hybrid automatic repeat request decoder requesting a retransmission of each received transport block set.