Patent ID: 9071419
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A node in a wireless telecommunications network, the node comprising: a resource allocation manager configured to: provide a semi-persistent resource for potentially shared use by plural wireless stations on an uplink to a base station; provide plural persistent resources for sending of units of user data to the base station from respective ones of the plural wireless stations; a checker configured to: detect non-receipt or erroneous receipt of a unit of user data transmitted from a particular one of the plural wireless stations on a persistent resource; provide an indication of the non-receipt or the erroneous receipt of the unit of user data to the particular wireless station; a deformatter configured to receive from the particular wireless terminal, in response to the indication of the non-receipt or the erroneous receipt, a retransmission of the unit of user data using a particular instance of the semi-persistent resource, provided that wireless stations other than the particular wireless station desist from using the particular instance of the semi-persistent resource.