Transmission Control Protocol Proxy in Long Term Evolution Radio Access Network

• US 20140286239A1
• Filed: 03/25/2014
• Published: 09/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Altiostar Networks, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Altiostar Networks, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chowdhury, Kuntal, Dahod, Ashraf M.
• Granted Patent: US 10,069,602 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/188 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/193 at the transport layer, e.g. TCP related
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/40 using split connections
• 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: H04L 69/163 In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0273 adapting protocols for flow control or congestion control to wireless environment, e.g. adapting transmission control protocol [TCP] wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation, e.g. wireless application protocol H04W80/00
• 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

Abstract

A system, a method, a device, and a computer program product for transmission of data packets between a user device and a server. A transmission control protocol proxy component for establishing a communication link between the user device and the server in accordance with a transmission control protocol for transmission of a data packet between the user device and the server is provided. The data packet is transmitted utilizing the transmission control protocol.

Claims

1. A device for transmission of data packets between a user device and a server, the device comprising:

at least one memory; and

at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory, the at least one processor being configured to;

provide a transmission control protocol proxy component for establishing a communication link between the user device and the server in accordance with a transmission control protocol for transmission of a data packet between the user device and the server; and

transmit the data packet utilizing the transmission control protocol.

2. The device according to claim 1, further comprising an evolved node (eNodeB) base station, the eNodeB base station comprising the at least one processor and the at least one memory.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein at least one processor being configured to prevent re-transmission of the data packet from the server to the user device upon the server failing to receive an acknowledgement from the user device within a predetermined period of time.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein at least one processor being configured to send to the server the acknowledgement indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

5. The device according to claim 3, wherein at least one processor being configured to prevent transmission of multiple acknowledgements from the user device indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein at least one processor being configured to send to the server an acknowledgement indicating a receipt of the data packet by the user device upon receiving a confirmation that the data packet was received by the user device, the confirmation being generated by at least one of the media access control (MAC) layer of the user device and a radio link control (RLC) layer of the user device.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the transmission control protocol proxy component includes at least one transmission control protocol optimization component configured to perform optimization of at least one transmission control protocol parameter.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein

the user device includes a power source configured to power the user device for transmission and receiving of data from the base station;

and

the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of power in the power source of the user device.

9. The device according to claim 7, wherein the optimization of at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of physical uplink shared channel (“

PUSCH”

) resources associated with a communications link between the user device and a base station comprising the at least one processor and the at least one memory.

10. The device according to claim 7, wherein the optimization of at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce interference of an uplink communications link between the user device and a base station comprising the at least one processor and the at least one memory.

11. A computer-implemented method for transmission of data packets between a user device and a server, the method comprising:

providing a transmission control protocol proxy component for establishing a communication link between the user device and the server in accordance with a transmission control protocol for transmission of a data packet between the user device and the server; and

transmitting the data packet utilizing the transmission control protocol;

wherein at least one of the providing and the transmitting is performed by at least one processor of at least one computing system.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein an evolved node (eNodeB) base station performs at least one of the providing and the transmitting, the eNodeB base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising

preventing re-transmission of the data packet from the server to the user device upon the server failing to receive an acknowledgement from the user device within a predetermined period of time.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising

sending to the server the acknowledgement indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

15. The method according to claim 13, further comprising

preventing transmission of multiple acknowledgements from the user device indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

16. The method according to claim 11, further comprising

sending to the server an acknowledgement indicating a receipt of the data packet by the user device upon receiving a confirmation that the data packet was received by the user device, the confirmation being generated by at least one of the media access control (MAC) layer of the user device and a radio link control (RLC) layer of the user device.

17. The method according to claim 11, wherein the transmission control protocol proxy component includes at least one transmission control protocol optimization component configured to perform optimization of at least one transmission control protocol parameter.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein

the user device includes a power source configured to power the user device for transmission and receiving of data from the base station;

and

the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of power in the power source of the user device.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of physical uplink shared channel (“

PUSCH”

) resources associated with a communications link between the user device and a base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce interference of an uplink communications link between the user device and a base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.

21. A computer program product, for transmission of data packets between a user device and a server, comprising a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one programmable processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising:

providing a transmission control protocol proxy component for establishing a communication link between the user device and the server in accordance with a transmission control protocol for transmission of a data packet between the user device and the server; and

transmitting the data packet utilizing the transmission control protocol.

22. The computer program product according to claim 21, wherein an evolved node (eNodeB) base station performs at least one of the providing and the transmitting, the eNodeB base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.

23. The computer program product according to claim 21, wherein the operation further comprise

preventing re-transmission of the data packet from the server to the user device upon the server failing to receive an acknowledgement from the user device within a predetermined period of time.

24. The computer program product according to claim 23, wherein the operation further comprise

sending to the server the acknowledgement indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

25. The computer program product according to claim 24, wherein the operation further comprise

preventing transmission of multiple acknowledgements from the user device indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

26. The computer program product according to claim 21, wherein the operation further comprise

sending to the server an acknowledgement indicating a receipt of the data packet by the user device upon receiving a confirmation that the data packet was received by the user device, the confirmation being generated by at least one of the media access control (MAC) layer of the user device and a radio link control (RLC) layer of the user device.

27. The computer program product according to claim 21, wherein the transmission control protocol proxy component includes at least one transmission control protocol optimization component configured to perform optimization of at least one transmission control protocol parameter.

28. The computer program product according to claim 27, wherein

the user device includes a power source configured to power the user device for transmission and receiving of data from the base station;

and

the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of power in the power source of the user device.

29. The computer program product according to claim 27, wherein the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of physical uplink shared channel (“

PUSCH”

) resources associated with a communications link between the user device and a base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.

30. The computer program product according to claim 27, wherein the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce interference of an uplink communications link between the user device and a base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.