Techniques to expedite retransmission of ARQ blocks using temporal relationships in wireless networks

A system, comprising:

• a base station (BS) operable in a wireless network;
• and
• a subscriber (SS) capable of communicating with said BS, wherein said SS is further capable of expediting retransmission of Automatic Repeat request (ARQ) blocks to said BS without waiting for a timer to expire or depending on an explicit NACK from said base station;
• and
• wherein said expediting retransmission of ARQ blocks is accomplished by performing ARQ acknowledgement state updates at the SS and BS that affect the other side at PHY frame boundary, keeping block transmission relationship to a PHY frame number at the SS, and positively deducing the outcome of a transmission at the sender by exploiting the temporal relationship between blocks transmitted in the same PHY frame.

A system, comprising:

• a base station (BS) operable in a wireless network;
• a dipole antenna connected to said BS;
• and
• a subscriber (SS) capable of communicating with said BS, wherein said SS is further capable of expediting retransmission of Automatic Repeat request (ARQ) blocks to said BS without waiting for a timer to expire or depending on an explicit NACK from said base station;
• and
• wherein said expediting retransmission of ARQ blocks is accomplished by performing ARQ acknowledgement state updates at the SS and BS that affect the other side at PHY frame boundary, keeping block transmission relationship to a PHY frame number at the SS, and positively deducing the outcome of a transmission at the sender by exploiting the temporal relationship between blocks transmitted in the same PHY frame.