Early packet delivery to radio link control

A wireless device, comprising:

• at least an antenna;
• a radio operably coupled to the antenna;
• and
• a processing element operably coupled to the radio;
• wherein the wireless device is configured to:
• receive a transport block via wireless communication, wherein the transport block comprises a plurality of code blocks;
• determine that a subset of the plurality of code blocks passed code block cyclic redundancy checks;
• determine that the subset of the plurality of code blocks that passed code block cyclic redundancy checks comprise one or more media access control layer control elements;
• determine to act on the one or more media access control layer control elements based at least in part on the one or more media access control layer control elements being comprised in the subset of the plurality of code blocks that passed code block cyclic redundancy checks:
• determine that the transport block failed a transport block cyclic redundancy check;
• provide packet data from the subset of the plurality of code blocks that passed code block cyclic redundancy checks to a radio link control layer of the wireless device based at least in part the code block cyclic redundancy checks;
• receive a transport block that comprises a retransmission of the one or more media access control layer control elements;
• and
• determine to not act on the retransmission of the one or more media access control layer control elements based at least in part on having previously acted on the one or more media access control layer control elements.

A method, comprising:

• by a wireless device:
• receiving a transport block via wireless communication, wherein the transport block comprises a plurality of code blocks;
• determining that a subset of the plurality of code blocks passed code block cyclic redundancy checks;
• determining that the transport block failed a transport block cyclic redundancy check;
• determining that the subset of the plurality of code blocks that passed code block cyclic redundancy checks comprise at least one complete radio link control protocol data unit, wherein said determining that the subset of the plurality of code blocks that passed code block cyclic redundancy checks comprise at least one complete radio link control protocol data unit comprises parsing one or more media access control headers of the transport block and determining a length of at least a first radio link control protocol data unit based at least in part on parsing one or more media access control headers of the transport block, wherein determining that the subset of the plurality of code blocks that passed code block cyclic redundancy checks comprise at least one complete radio link control protocol data unit is based at least in part on determining the length of at least the first radio link control protocol data unit;
• and
• providing the at least one complete radio link control protocol data unit to a radio link control layer of the wireless device.