Method and device for retransmission

• US 10,084,572 B2
• Filed: 03/20/2017
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Germany GmbH (Intel Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lantiq Beteiligungs-GmbH & Company KG (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Schoppmeier, Dietmar, Schedelbeck, Gert, Heise, Bernd
• Primary Examiner(s): Vallecillo, Kyle
• Application Number:
  US15/463,789
• Publication Number:
  US 20170201349A1
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0083 Formatting with frames or packets; Protocol or part of protocol for error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/08 by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1607 Details of the supervisory signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/188 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/248 Distortion measuring systems measurement of non-linear distortion G01R23/20; measuring characteristics of individual pulses, e.g. deviation from pulse flatness, rise time, duration G01R29/02

Abstract

Embodiments related to retransmission in a communication system are described and depicted. In one embidiment, a retransmission entity repeats a transmission of a data transfer unit by the device after a predetermined number of other transmitted data transfer units has been transmitted. The retransmission entity may also determine whether a measure for a time period since the first transmission of the data transfer unit by the device has exceeded a predetermined threshold and to provide a final transmission of the data transfer unit based on the determining that the measure for the time period has exceeded the predetermined threshold.

Claims

1. A transceiver comprising:

circuitry to configure a retransmission of data transfer units corrupted by single or repetitive noise;

a retransmission queue configured to store the data transfer units;

the circuitry being configured to obtain a length of the retransmission queue;

the circuitry further being configured to obtain a parameter of retransmission that is based on the length of the retransmission queue;

wherein the parameter is used to determine a starting point for counting a number of consecutive correct received data transfer units;

wherein the number of consecutive correct received data transfer units is obtained from a retransmission return message.

2. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the parameter is a look back parameter indicating a number of the data transfer units between a previously received first data transfer unit and a previously received second data transfer unit.

3. The transceiver of claim 2, wherein the retransmission return message includes a non-acknowledgment signal that indicates the parameter.

4. The transceiver of claim 1, further comprising a retransmission multiplexer that is configured to multiplex the data transfer units onto a common stream.

5. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to obtain the parameter based on a first value indicating a length of a repetitive impulse noise event occurring on the communication system and a second value indicating a period length of repetitive impulse noise events.

6. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to determine an expected time in which the data transfer unit is expected to be transmitted based on a timestamp.

7. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to determine a time period since the first transmission of the data transfer unit has exceeded a threshold based on a timestamp.

8. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to determine when one of the data transfer units is to pass a predefined point in the transmission protocol based on a timestamp.

9. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to determine for each received data transfer unit whether a first data transfer unit which was received previously to the current received data unit was a corrupt data transfer unit and if the first data transfer unit has been determined to be a corrupt data transfer unit, to determine the second data transfer unit based on a sequence number of the current received data transfer unit and the parameter.

10. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to determine a number indicating how many data units have been received successively non-corrupt after the second data transfer unit.

11. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the repetitive noise is coupled from an alternating current (AC) power source.

12. A transceiver comprising:

circuitry to configure a retransmission of data transfer units corrupted by single or repetitive noise;

the circuitry further being configured to generate a retransmission return message including a signal that indicates a parameter of retransmission indicating a starting point for counting a number of consecutive correct received data transfer units;

wherein the circuitry is further configured to include in the retransmission return message a number of consecutive correct received data transfer units; and

a transmitter configured to transmit the retransmission return message.

13. The transceiver of claim 12, wherein the circuitry is configured to include a non-acknowledgment signal that indicates the parameter in the retransmission return message.

14. The transceiver of claim 12, wherein the circuitry is configured to include in the retransmission return message identifier information that identifies to which data transfer unit the received retransmission return message refers.

15. The transceiver of claim 12, wherein the circuitry is configured include in the retransmission return message an absolute data transfer unit count number of the last received data transfer unit.