USING FRAME PROTOCOL TO SIGNAL RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER THAT NODE B HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO DETERMINE OR HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO ACCURATELY DETERMINE NUMBER OF RETRANSMISSIONS

摘要

FIELD: information technology.;SUBSTANCE: frame protocol header is used to signal the radio network controller that the node B has not been able to determine or has not been able to accurately determine the number of retransmissions. The first embodiment is to reserve a bit pattern for use in the 'Number of HARQ retransmissions' field on the Iub frame protocol data frame header to indicate that node B does not know the actual number of retransmissions. The second embodiment is to define a one bit flag on Iub/Iur frame protocol data frame header to indicate that the value set in the 'Number of HARQ Retransmissions' in the frame protocol header is an estimated/guessed value by node B or not.;EFFECT: improved functioning of node B.;40 cl, 7 dwg