Patent ID: 7881298
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of segmenting a packet into a plurality of processing data units (PDUs) at a transmitting side of a wireless communication system and transmitting the PDUs to a receiving side of the wireless communication system, while an environment of a channel of the transmission varies from time to time, the method comprising: selecting each of the plurality of PDUs and performing steps (a)-(e): (a) determining whether the selected PDU is a retransmitted PDU; (b) if the selected PDU is not a retransmitted PDU, transmitting the selected PDU from the transmitting side using the channel of the wireless communication system; (c) if the selected PDU is a retransmitted PDU, determining whether the selected PDU has a transmittable size allowed by a corresponding adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) option of the wireless communication system, representing the retransmitted PDU as a root node of a tree; (d) if the selected PDU has a transmittable size, transmitting the selected PDU from the transmitting side using the channel of the wireless communication system; and (e) if the selected PDU does not have a transmittable size, wherein