Patent ID: 8738983

Claim:
A method of uplink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmissions in a radio base station of a wireless communications system, said radio base station controlled by a radio network controller (RNC) and receiving data packets from at least one user equipment adapted use autonomous HARQ retransmissions for transmitting the data packets received at the radio base station, said method comprising, for each reception of a new data packet from the at least one user equipment: observing the amount of HARQ retransmissions needed to correctly decode the latest at least one received data packet; adjusting said number of autonomous HARQ retransmissions, based on the observed amount of HARQ retransmissions; and transmitting a request for an adjustment of said number of autonomous HARQ retransmissions to the RNC, in order for the RNC to transmit a request for an adjustment to the user equipment and inform at least one soft handover radio base station, also receiving data packets from the at least one user equipment, about the adjustment.