Patent ID: 7013142
Filing Date: 2006-03-14
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. Method of communication on an uplink between a user equipment and a first radio network controller of a cellular network infrastructure comprising an active set of base nodes which each receive radio signals transmitted by the said user equipment, comprising the following actions: generation, in each base node of the active set, of at least a first frame of soft bits on the basis of the received radio signal and a corresponding first frame of hard bits; transmission in the cellular network infrastructure, from each base node of the active set, of an accuracy indicator which results from an error check on the frame of hard bits; transmission, to the first radio network controller, of the said first frame of hard bits from a base node whose accuracy indicator has a so-called good level, if at least one accuracy indicator has the said good level; transmission, to the first radio network controller if no accuracy indicator has the said good level, of each of the first frames of soft bits from at least two base nodes and the combination in the first radio network controller of the transmitted frames of soft bits in order to generate a second frame of hard bits.