Device and method for transmitting/receiving data in wireless communication system

• US 10,075,379 B2
• Filed: 08/11/2016
• Issued: 09/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jung, Hakyung, Bae, Beomsik
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Minh-Trang
• Application Number:
  US15/235,060
• Publication Number:
  US 20170048151A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/72 Routing based on the source address
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/193 at the transport layer, e.g. TCP related
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/27 Evaluation or update of window size, e.g. using information derived from acknowledged [ACK] packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/34 ensuring sequence integrity, e.g. using sequence numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0044 of quality context information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/14 Reselecting a network or an air interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/1446 wherein at least one of the networks is unlicensed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/06 Transport layer protocols, e.g. TCP [Transport Control Protocol] over wireless transmission control protocol/Internet protocol [TCP/IP] or user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided in order to support a higher data transmission rate than a 4G communication system such as LTE. The present disclosure relates to a device and method for transmitting and/or receiving data in a wireless communication system. The present disclosure enables determining whether an access change occurs from a first node using a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) to a second node using a second RAT and enables transmitting information instructing to adjust the TCP transmission rate to a TCP transmission device when an access change occurs from the first node to the second node.

Claims

1. A method for operating an apparatus for receiving a data regarding a transmission control protocol (TCP) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

identifying an access node for the apparatus having been changed from a first node using a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second node using a second RAT;

identifying a first bandwidth regarding the first RAT and a second bandwidth regarding the second RAT;

generating a TCP acknowledgment (ACK) message based on another TCP ACK message that has been lastly transmitted to another apparatus;

transmitting, to the other apparatus, the TCP ACK message before a TCP data is received if the second bandwidth exceeds the first bandwidth; and

receiving the TCP data according to a congestion window with a size increased by the other apparatus based on the TCP ACK message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the TCP ACK message includes information for notifying the other apparatus that the second bandwidth exceeds the first bandwidth.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the TCP ACK message comprises generating the TCP ACK message based on at least one of a sequence number of another TCP data which has been lastly received and a sequence number of the other TCP ACK message which has been lastly transmitted.

4. The method of claim 3, generating the TCP ACK message comprises:

generating the TCP ACK message by adding a predetermined threshold value to at least one of the sequence number of the other TCP data and the sequence number of the other TCP ACK message.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the TCP ACK message after the TCP data is received if the second bandwidth does not exceed the first bandwidth.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein an amount of the TCP data corresponds to the size of the congestion window.

7. A method for operating an apparatus for transmitting a data regarding a transmission control protocol (TCP) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving a TCP ACK message from another apparatus with an access node for the other apparatus having been changed from a first node using a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second node using the second RAT;

determining whether the TCP ACK message is transmitted before the other apparatus has received a TCP data;

increasing a size of a congestion window based on determining that the TCP ACK message is transmitted before the other apparatus has received the TCP data; and

transmitting the TCP data to the other apparatus through the congestion window with the increased size.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the increasing of the congestion window comprises:

determining the size of the congestion window based on a round trip time (RTT) between the TCP ACK message and the TCP data in comparison to a reference value.

9. An apparatus for receiving a data regarding transmission control protocol (TCP) in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

at least one transceiver; and

at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one transceiver,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to;

identify an access node for the apparatus having been changed from a first node using a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second node using a second RAT;

identify a first bandwidth regarding the first RAT and a second bandwidth regarding the second RAT;

generate a TCP ACK message based on another TCP ACK message which has been lastly transmitted to another apparatus;

transmit, to the other apparatus, the TCP ACK message before a TCP data is received if the second bandwidth exceeds the first bandwidth; and

receive the TCP data according to a congestion window with a size increased by the other apparatus based on the TCP ACK message.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the TCP ACK message includes information for notifying the other apparatus that the second bandwidth exceeds the first bandwidth.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate the TCP ACK message based on at least one of a sequence number of another TCP data which has been lastly received and a sequence number of the other TCP ACK message which has been lastly transmitted.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate the TCP ACK message by adding a predetermined threshold value to at least one of the sequence number of the other TCP data and the sequence number of the other TCP ACK message.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

transmit the TCP ACK message after the TCP data is receive if the second bandwidth does not exceed the first bandwidth.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein an amount of the TCP data corresponds to the size of the congestion window.

15. The apparatus of claim 14,

wherein the size of the congestion window is determined based on a round trip time (RTT) between the TCP ACK message and the TCP data in comparison to a reference value.

16. The apparatus of claim 13,

wherein the TCP ACK message comprises information for notifying the other apparatus that the second bandwidth exceeds the first bandwidth.