Communication system, transmitter and receiver

• US 20060190610A1
• Filed: 02/01/2006
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Takehiro, Kato, Yasuhiro, Takahashi, Hideaki, Motegi, Masayuki
• Application Number:
  US11/344,117
• Publication Number:
  US 20060190610A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/007 Unequal error protection for format H04L1/0078; for codes per se H03M13/35
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1877 for semi-reliable protocols, e.g. for less sensitive applications like streaming video buffer level management for video bitstream control arrangements H04N21/44004
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0098 Unequal error protection

Abstract

Disclosed is a communication system in which appropriate retransmission control operations are respectively performed for two data types including real time data and non-real time data, and the transmitter and the receiver used for this communication system. A data type identifier identifies a data type as real time or non-real time, and based on the identified data type, a controller, and another controller (not shown) adjust parameters used for retransmission control.

Claims

1. A communication system in which a transmitter transmits two types of data including real time data and non-real time data to a receiver for a respective data block, the communication system comprising:

a retransmission requester configured to transmit a request for retransmission of an error data block which is the data block that is not correctly received by the receiver, regardless of whether the data type is real time or non-real time;

a retransmitter configured to retransmit the error data block in accordance with the request for retransmission;

a data type identifier configured to identify the data type as real time or non-real time; and

a parameter adjuster configured to adjust a parameter for data retransmission control of the two data types based on the data type identified by the data type identifier.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the parameter comprises at least one of a window size, a delay, and a maximum retransmission count, which are used for data retransmission control.

3. The communication system according to claim 2, wherein,

the parameter adjuster provides a value for the window size, the delay and the maximum transmission count for the data type of non-real time, greater than the values provided for the data type of real time.

4. The communication system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reception status notification generator configured to generate one reception status notification indicating whether or not the data blocks has been correctly received by the receiver for a plurality of data blocks when the data type is non real time, or to generate one reception status notification for one data block when the data type is real time,

wherein the request for retransmission is the reception status notification indicating that the transport block has not been correctly received.

5. The communication system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reception status notification requester configured to request the receiver to transmit a reception status notification indicating whether the data block has been correctly received by the receiver, when the data type is non-real time; and

a reception status notification generator configured to generate the reception status notification,

wherein,

the retransmission requester transmits the reception status notification generated by the reception status notification generator, when the request for the reception status notification is received from the reception status notification requester, and

the retransmission request is the reception status notification indicating that the transport block has not been received correctly.

6. The communication system according to any one of claims 4 and 5, wherein,

the reception status notification generator provides redundant data enables error detection for the reception status notification, and

the data length of redundant data for the data type of non-real time is greater than the data length for the data type of real time.

7. The communication system according to any one of claims 4 and 5, wherein,

the retransmission requester repetitively transmits the reception status notification for a predetermined number of times, and

the predetermined number of times for the data type of non-real time is greater than the number of times for the data type of real time.

8. The communication system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a transport block generator configured to generate a transport block by dividing or coupling a higher block which is a data unit to be handled in a protocol layer higher than a protocol layer which handles the data block, when the data type is non-real time, and to generate the transport block by dividing the higher block, when the data type is real time; and

a higher block reconfigurer to perform a reverse process of generating the transport block, the reverse process being a process to reconfigure the higher block from the transport block generated by the transport block generator.

9. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein,

the data type identifier identifies the data type of the data transmitted through a single communication channel as real time, when both real time data and non-real time data are transmitted through the single communication channel.

10. The communication system according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the data type identifier identifies the data type based on a traffic class identifier included in the data block or on a traffic class transmitted by a device other than the transmitter and the receiver, to the transmitter.

11. A transmitter which transmits two types of data including real time data and non-real time data to a receiver for a respective data block, the transmitter comprising:

a retransmission request acquirer configured to acquire a request for retransmission of an error data block which is the data block that is not correctly received by the receiver, regardless of whether the data type is real time or a non-real time;

a retransmitter configured to retransmit the error data block in accordance with the request for retransmission;

a data type identifier configured to identify the data type as real time or non-real time; and

a parameter adjuster configured to adjust a parameter for data retransmission control for the two data types based on the data type identified by the data type identifier.

12. A receiver which receives two types of data including real time data and non-real time data from a transmitter for a respective data block, the receiver comprising:

a retransmission requester configured to transmit a request for retransmission of an error data block which is the data block that is not correctly received by the receiver, regardless of whether the data type is real time or non-real time;

an error data block receiver configured to receive the error data block which is transmitted in accordance with the request for retransmission;

a data type acquirer configured to obtain the data type from the transmitter; and

a parameter adjuster configured to adjust a parameter for data retransmission control for the two data types based on the data type identified by the data type acquirer.