Patent ID: 8958411
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of transmitting Radio Link Control (RLC) data in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: detecting an expiry of a poll retransmit timer; if it is detected that the poll retransmit timer is expired, checking whether a positive or negative acknowledgement for an RLC data Protocol Data Unit (RLC data PDU) was not received, the checking step being performed until a next transmission opportunity, the next transmission opportunity occurring when an instruction is received from a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer indicating that a transmission for the RLC data PDU is possible because radio resource are available; if the positive or negative acknowledgement was not detected or received in the checking step and if both a transmission buffer and a retransmission buffer are empty, setting a polling bit in the RLC data PDU; and transmitting the RLC data PDU having the polling bit set therein, wherein a polling (P) field of the RLC data PDU is set to “1” after the transmission of the RLC data PDU, wherein only one poll retransmit timer is used during the transmission of one or more RLC data PDU comprising the polling bit, wherein, whenever an RLC data PDU comprising a new polling bit is transmitted: wherein the RLC data PDU comprising the polling bit is not transmitted if the positive acknowledgment is received before the next transmission opportunity, wherein a poll triggered by the poll retransmit timer is canceled if a sequence number of a status report is equal to the SN stored for the polling bit before the next transmission opportunity, and wherein the poll retransmit timer is started when the RLC data PDU comprising the polling bit is delivered to a lower layer.