Techniques for wireless access and wireline network integration
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsJohn T. Chapman, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang
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Abstract
One embodiment is a method and includes receiving at a termination element of a first network a bandwidth report (“BWR”), in which the BWR includes information regarding a data transmission opportunity over a second network for at least one endpoint data; scheduling a first network transmission opportunity for the at least one endpoint data using information derived from the received BWR; and receiving from a 5 first network forwarding device the at least one endpoint data in accordance with the scheduled first network transmission opportunity.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- determining a failure corresponding to a packet;
- setting, in response to determining the failure, each of a plurality of Bandwidth Reports (BWRs) assigned corresponding to remaining packets received subsequent to the packet corresponding to the failure in a predetermined amount of time in the future to zero;
- determining that the packet has been successfully retransmitted;
- providing, by an eNodeB (eNB), a BWR indicating grants sufficient to cover all received packets queued since determining the failure plus packets that are expected to egress the eNB in the predetermined amount of time in the future;
- and
- queuing all the packets received subsequent to determining the failure, wherein queuing all the packets received subsequent to determining the failure comprises queuing all the packets received subsequent to determining the failure at a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer of the eNB.
A system comprising:
- a memory storage;
- and
- a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to:
- determine a failure corresponding to a packet;
- set, in response to determining the failure, each of a plurality of Bandwidth Reports (BWRs) assigned corresponding to remaining packets received subsequent to the packet corresponding to the failure in a predetermined amount of time in the future to zero;
- determine that the packet has been successfully retransmitted;
- provide a BWR indicating grants sufficient to cover all received packets queued since determining the failure plus packets that are expected to egress an eNB a predetermined amount of time in the future;
- and
- queue all the packets received subsequent to determining the failure, wherein queuing all the packets received subsequent to determining the failure comprises queuing all the packets received subsequent to determining the failure at a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer of the eNB.
A computer-readable medium that stores a set of instructions which when executed perform a method executed by the set of instructions comprising:
- determining a failure corresponding to a packet;
- setting, in response to determining the failure, each of a plurality of Bandwidth Reports (BWRs) assigned corresponding to remaining packets received subsequent to the packet corresponding to the failure in a predetermined amount of time in the future to zero;
- determining that the packet has been successfully retransmitted;
- providing, by an eNB, a BWR indicating grants sufficient to cover all received packets queued since determining the failure plus packets that are expected to egress the eNB a predetermined amount of time in the future;
- and
- queuing all the packets received subsequent to determining the failure, wherein queuing all the packets received subsequent to determining the failure comprises queuing all the packets received subsequent to determining the failure at a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer of the eNB.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.