Patent ID: 7075917

Claim:
A wireless network comprising a radio network controller and a plurality of assigned to signals, which are each provided for exchanging data according to the hybrid ARQ method an which form a receiving and/or transmitting side, in which a physical layer of a transmitting side is arranged for storing coded transport blocks in a memory, which blocks contain at least a packet data unit which is delivered by an assigned radio link control layer and can be identified by a packet data unit sequence number, storing abbreviated sequence numbers whose length depends on the maximum number of coded transport blocks to be stored and which can be shown unambiguously in a packet data unit sequence number, and for transmitting coded transport blocks having at least an assigned abbreviated sequence number and a physical layer of a receiving side is provided for testing the correct reception of the coded transport block and for sending a positive acknowledge command to the transmitting side over a back channel when there is correct reception and a negative acknowledge command when there is error-affected reception.