Patent ID: 7808955

Claim:
A method for transmitting control parameters on a physical channel between a mobile radio device and a base station in a cellular network, comprising: providing with the control parameters a packet number for identifying a data packet; source coding, via a source coding device, the packet number together with at least one further of the control parameters for the transmission, wherein the control parameters are used for controlling a packet-oriented data transmission between the mobile radio device and the base station; transmitting, via a transmission device, the at least one further of the control parameters and the packet number between the mobile radio device and the base station; implementing by a temporal distribution of the same physical channel, a plurality of different time channels available for sending data packets; re-transmitting a data packet on one of the plurality of different time channels using the transmitting device in each instance, until the transmitting device receives a confirmation signal from a receiving device; and using at most so many different ones of the plurality of different time channels such that a sum of transmission time intervals of the different ones of the plurality of different time channels covers a round-trip time span at the end of which a re-transmission after a previous transmission can take place at the earliest on a specific one of the plurality of different time channels.