Code block level error correction and media access control (MAC) level hybrid automatic repeat requests to mitigate bursty puncturing and interference in a multi-layer protocol wireless system

A transmitting device of a wireless communication system, comprising:

• a wireless configured to wirelessly transmit to one or more receiving devices;
• a transport block generator configured to encode data into one or more transport blocks, each transport block including a plurality of code blocks in which the data is encoded;
• a transport block transmission controller configured to control the wireless transceiver to wirelessly transmit the one or more transport blocks over a channel specific to a receiving device, wherein the code blocks within the transport blocks are transmitted without redundancy information or with a selected amount of redundancy information;
• a code block acknowledgement reception controller configured to control the wireless transceiver to wirelessly receive, from the receiving device, a positive acknowledgement of successfully decoded code blocks from the transmitted plurality of one or more transport blocks, wherein the positive acknowledgement is received despite one or more failed code blocks;
• an expected puncturing rate-based error correction code generator configured to generate an error correction code over the code blocks within the one or more transport blocks, wherein the error correction code is configured based on an expected puncturing rate within the transmission of a new transport block;
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• wherein the transport block transmission controller is further configured to control the wireless transceiver to wirelessly transmit the error correction code within the new transport block, the new transport block including at least one parity code block that provides redundancy to recover errors in the one or more failed code blocks.

A method operational on a user equipment of a wireless communication system, comprising:

• wirelessly receiving one or more transport blocks over a channel from a transmitting device using a transport block reception controller, where each transport block includes a plurality of code blocks in which data is encoded, the code blocks within the transport blocks received without redundancy information or with a selected amount of redundancy information;
• attempting to decode data in at least some of the code blocks received within the one or more transport blocks using a transport block decoder;
• determining a number of failed code blocks within the received one or more transport blocks using a code block error counter;
• wirelessly sending, to the transmitting device using an acknowledgement transmission controller, a positive acknowledgement of successfully decoded code blocks within the received one or more transport blocks, wherein the positive acknowledgement is transmitted despite one or more failed code blocks;
• wirelessly receiving, using the transport block reception controller, a new transport block including an error correction code configured based on an expected puncturing rate within the new transport block, the new transport block including at least one parity code block that provides redundancy to recover errors in the one or more failed code blocks;
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• recovering the failed code blocks from the error correction code including using the at least one parity code block to recover errors in the one or more failed code blocks.

A receiving device of a wireless communication system, comprising:

• a wireless transceiver;
• a transport block reception controller configured to wirelessly receive one or more transport blocks over a channel from a transmitting device, where each transport block includes a plurality of code blocks in which data is encoded, the code blocks within the transport blocks received without redundancy information or with a selected amount of redundancy information;
• a transport block decoder configured to attempt to decode data in at least some of the code blocks received within the one or more transport blocks;
• an acknowledgement transmission controller configured to wirelessly send, to the transmitting device, a positive acknowledgement of successfully decoded code blocks within the received one or more transport blocks, wherein the positive acknowledgement is transmitted despite one or more failed code blocks;
• the transport block reception controller further configured to wirelessly receive a new transport block including an error correction code configured based on an expected puncturing rate within the new transport block, the new transport block including at least one parity code block that provides redundancy to recover errors in the one or more failed code blocks;
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• a code block recovery controller configured to recover the failed code blocks from the error correction code including using the at least one parity code block to recover errors in the one or more failed code blocks.