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US 6,611,515 B1Granted
System and method for link and media access control layer transaction completion procedures
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsKrishna Balachandran, Richard P. Ejzak, Sanjiv Nanda, Shiv M. Seth, Stanley Vitebsky, William Waung
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Abstract
A system and method of implementing a radio link protocol completion oriented packet data communication system. A data backlog is described with a media access control layer controller and transmitting a BEGIN protocol data unit containing a flag transmitted to a receiver. A media access control layer transaction is initiated in response to the transmitting of the BEGIN protocol data unit.
Claims39
A method of implementing a radio link protocol completion process for a transaction oriented packet data communication system, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining a data backlog with a media access control layer controller;
- transmitting, to a receiver, a BEGIN protocol data unit containing a flag;
- and
- initiating a media access control layer transaction in response to the transmitting of the BEGIN protocol data unit;
- wherein the media access control layer controller receives an indication of the data backlog from a network layer;
- wherein the flag comprises a transaction size indicator;
- wherein the media access control layer transaction is composed of a number of data blocks, and the media access control layer transaction has a beginning and an end;
- wherein the data blocks are included in a CONTINUE protocol data unit;
- wherein the number of data blocks is less than a system broadcast parameter,
- wherein the BEGIN protocol data unit contains a transaction size field that defines the number of data blocks;
- wherein an END control block is transmitted with other data blocks as part of the CONTINUE protocol data unit;
- wherein the transaction field values of 1, 2 through 2N−2 indicates that the media access control layer transaction has a number of data blocks equal to the value of the transaction size field value.
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A transaction oriented packet data communication system comprising:
- a media access control layer controller for determining a data backlog in a media access control layer buffer;
- a media access control layer transmitter for transmitting a BEGIN protocol data unit containing a flag to a receiver;
- and
- means for initiating a media access control layer transaction in response to the transmitting of the BEGIN protocol data unit;
- wherein the flag comprises a transaction size indicator;
- wherein the number of data blocks is less than a system broadcast parameter;
- wherein the BEGIN protocol data unit contains a transaction size field that defines the number of data blocks;
- and
- wherein the END control block is transmitted with other data blocks as part of a CONTINUE protocol data unit;
- wherein the transaction size field values of 1, 2 through 2N−2 indicate that the media access control layer transaction has a number of data blocks equal to the value of the transaction size field value.
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A transaction oriented packet data communication system comprising:
- a media access control layer controller for determining a data backlog in a media access control layer buffer;
- a media access control layer transmitter for transmitting a BEGIN protocol data unit containing a flag to a receiver;
- and
- means for initiating a media access control layer transaction in response to the transmitting of the BEGIN protocol data unit;
- wherein the flag comprises a transaction size indicator;
- wherein the number of data blocks is less than a system broadcast parameter;
- wherein the BEGIN protocol data unit contains a transaction size field that defines the number of data blocks;
- wherein the END control block is transmitted with other data blocks as part of a CONTINUE protocol data unit;
- wherein the media access control layer transaction is bounded when the transaction size field has a value equal to 2N−1 where N is bit size of the transaction size field.
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A transaction oriented packet data communication system comprising:
- a media access control layer controller;
- means for determining a data backlog with the media access control layer controller
- means for transmitting a BEGIN protocol data unit containing a flag to a receiver;
- and
- means for initiating a media access control layer transaction in response to the transmitting of the BEGIN protocol data unit;
- wherein the flag comprises a transaction size indicator;
- wherein the number of data blocks is less than a system broadcast parameter;
- wherein the BEGIN protocol data unit contains a transaction size field that defines the number of data blocks;
- wherein the END control block is transmitted with other data blocks as part of a CONTINUE protocol data unit;
- wherein the transaction field values of 1, 2 through 2N−2 indicate that the media access control layer transaction has a number of data blocks equal to the value of the transaction size field value.
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A transaction oriented packet data communication system comprising:
- a media access control layer controller;
- means for determining a data backlog with the media access control layer controller
- means for transmitting a BEGIN protocol data unit containing a flag to a receiver;
- and
- means for initiating a media access control layer transaction in response to the transmitting of the BEGIN protocol data unit;
- wherein the flag comprises a transaction size indicator,
- wherein the number of data blocks is less than a system broadcast parameter;
- wherein the BEGIN protocol data unit contains a transaction size field that defines the number of data blocks;
- wherein the END control block is transmitted with other data blocks as part of a CONTINUE protocol data unit;
- wherein the determining means determines that the media access control layer transaction is bounded when the transaction size field has a value equal to 2N−1 where N is bit size of the transaction size field.
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