Multi radio media access control for ultra-low and bounded delay
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsOren Hencinski, Ohad Klausner
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A multi radio media access control (MAC) (MRM) transceiver includes a plurality of transceiver systems, each transceiver system assigned a different MAC address, and a memory configured to aggregate, in a shared queue, a plurality of packets of a data stream received via a computer network. Each of the transceiver systems is configured to asynchronously acquire one or more of the packets from the shared queue for transmission in one of a plurality of transmission channels. Each one of the transmission channels comprises a different frequency. The transmission channels are maintained for simultaneous transmission of the one or more packets to a common target user equipment (UE) that is wirelessly coupled to the MRM transceiver.
Claims20
A multi radio media access control (MAC) (MRM) transceiver comprising:
- a memory configured to store, in a shared queue, a plurality of packets of a data stream;
- and
- a plurality of transceiver systems, wherein each of the transceiver systems has a different MAC address and is configured to:
- asynchronously acquire one or more of the packets from the shared queue for transmission;
- transmit the one or more of the packets in one of a plurality of transmission channels, wherein each of the transmission channels has a different frequency, and wherein the MRM transceiver is configured to maintain the transmission channels for simultaneous transmission of the plurality of packets to a common target station that is wirelessly coupled to the MRM transceiver, wherein each of the plurality of packets has a field encoding an MRM sequence identifier to be decoded by the common target station for packet reordering;
- and
- wherein each of the transceiver systems comprises a controller configured to identify failed transmission of the one or more of the packets on a transmission channel of a transceiver system managed by the controller, and return the one or more of the packets that failed transmission to the shared queue, wherein the one or more of the packets that failed transmission are returned to a place in the shared queue according to their MRM sequence identifier.
A method implemented by a multi radio media access control (MAC) (MRM) transceiver, the method comprising:
- receiving, via a computer network, a plurality of packets of a data stream;
- storing the plurality of packets in a shared queue;
- simultaneously maintaining, using a plurality of transceiver systems of the MRM transceiver, a plurality of transmission channels with a common target user equipment (UE) that is wirelessly coupled to the MRM transceiver, wherein each of the transmission channels comprises a different frequency;
- asynchronously acquiring, by the transceiver systems, one or more of the packets from the shared queue for a parallel transmission in the transmission channels;
- transmitting the one or more of the packets in one of a plurality of transmission channels, wherein each of the transmission channels has a different frequency, and wherein each of the plurality of packets has a field encoding an MRM sequence identifier for packet reordering;
- identifying failed transmission of the one or more of the packets;
- and
- returning the one or more of the packets that failed transmission to the shared queue, wherein the one or more of the packets that failed transmission are returned to a place in the shared queue according to their MRM sequence identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.