Patent ID: 8713393

Claim:
A method comprising receiving a plurality of cells; providing for each cell or a group of the plurality of cells an identification; transmitting the plurality of cells from a first transceiver unit to a second transceiver unit; transmitting a request for retransmission from the second transceiver unit to the first transceiver unit, the request comprising one or more identifications to indicate a retransmission request for one or more cells; providing a cell header compression, the cell header compression reducing a cell header by n bits; subsequent the cell header compression, using at least a part of the n bits for providing CRC information, without reduction of header bytes, the CRC information used to verify an integrity of at least one of the plurality of cells; processing the request for retransmission at the first transceiver unit to identify the cells for retransmission based on the identification; and retransmitting the one or more identified cells.