Transmission of acknowledgement and negative acknowledgement in a wireless communication system

A communication device configured for balancing and transmission of Acknowledgement and Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK), comprising:

• a processor;
• memory in electronic communication with the processor;
• instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable to:
• receive an ACK/NACK sequence;
• balance the ACK/NACK sequence, wherein balancing comprises modifying the ACK/NACK sequence such that the ACK/NACK sequence has a more even distribution of ones and zeros;
• and
• transmit the ACK/NACK sequence.

A method for compression and transmission of Acknowledgement and Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK), comprising:

• determining, on a communication device, one or more thresholds based on a size of one or more code words;
• generating, on the communication device, a compressed ACK/NACK sequence, wherein:
• the compressed ACK/NACK sequence identifies one or more correctly received code words and one or more incorrectly received code words if the number of incorrectly received code words is less than a first threshold of the one or more thresholds;
• and
• the compressed ACK/NACK sequence indicates that all of the one or more code words were incorrectly received if the number of incorrectly received code words is greater than the first threshold;
• wherein the communication device is selected from the group consisting of a wireless communication device and a base station.

A method for balancing and transmission of Acknowledgement and Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK), comprising:

• receiving, by a communication device, an ACK/NACK sequence;
• balancing, on the communication device, the ACK/NACK sequence, wherein balancing comprises modifying the ACK/NACK sequence such that the ACK/NACK sequence has a more even distribution of ones and zeros;
• and
• transmitting the ACK/NACK sequence from the communication device.

A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium for compression and transmission of Acknowledgement and Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) comprising executable instructions for:

• determining, on a communication device, one or more thresholds based on a size of one or more code words;
• generating, on the communication device, a compressed ACK/NACK sequence, wherein:
• the compressed ACK/NACK sequence identifies one or more correctly received code words and one or more incorrectly received code words if the number of incorrectly received code words is less than a first threshold of the one or more thresholds;
• and
• the compressed ACK/NACK sequence indicates that all of the one or more code words were incorrectly received if the number of incorrectly received code words is greater than the first threshold;
• wherein the communication device is selected from the group consisting of a wireless communication device and a base station.

A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium for balancing and transmission of Acknowledgement and Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) comprising executable instructions for:

• receiving an ACK/NACK sequence;
• balancing the ACK/NACK sequence, wherein balancing comprises modifying the ACK/NACK sequence such that the ACK/NACK sequence has a more even distribution of ones and zeros;
• and
• transmitting the ACK/NACK sequence.