ACK-NACK Signaling Enhancements
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a transmitter configured to transmit an outbound RF signal to a destination device, the outbound RF signal including a plurality of code words forming a transport block;
a receiver configured to receive an Acknowledgement-Negative Acknowledgement (ACK-NACK) message from the destination device, wherein when one or more of the code words within the transport block were received in error by the destination device, the ACK-NACK message indicating the one or more code words that were received in error; and
a processing module configured to determine the one or more code words that were received in error from the ACK-NACK message and retransmit the one or more code words that were received in error to the destination device via the transmitter.
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Abstract
An ACK-NACK feedback message indicates which code words within a transport block that were received in error. The ACK-NACK message has a variable format based on the number of code words in the transport block and the number of code words received in error.
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a transmitter configured to transmit an outbound RF signal to a destination device, the outbound RF signal including a plurality of code words forming a transport block; a receiver configured to receive an Acknowledgement-Negative Acknowledgement (ACK-NACK) message from the destination device, wherein when one or more of the code words within the transport block were received in error by the destination device, the ACK-NACK message indicating the one or more code words that were received in error; and a processing module configured to determine the one or more code words that were received in error from the ACK-NACK message and retransmit the one or more code words that were received in error to the destination device via the transmitter. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An apparatus, comprising:
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a transmitter configured to transmit an outbound RF signal to a destination device, the outbound RF signal including a plurality of code words forming a transport block; a receiver configured to receive an Acknowledgement-Negative Acknowledgement (ACK-NACK) message from the destination device, the ACK-NACK message having a variable format based on a number of code words in the transport block and a number of code words received in error by the destination device, wherein when one or more of the code words within the transport block were received in error by the destination device, the ACK-NACK message indicating the one or more code words that were received in error; and a processing module configured to determine the one or more code words that were received in error from the ACK-NACK message and retransmit the one or more code words that were received in error to the destination device via the transmitter. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for Acknowledgement-Negative Acknowledgement (ACK-NACK) signaling, comprising:
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transmitting an outbound RF signal to a destination device, the outbound RF signal including a plurality of code words forming a transport block; receiving an Acknowledgement-Negative Acknowledgement (ACK-NACK) message from the destination device, wherein when one or more of the code words within the transport block were received in error by the destination device, the ACK-NACK message indicating the one or more code words that were received in error; determining the one or more code words that were received in error from the ACK-NACK message; and retransmitting the one or more code words that were received in error to the destination device via the transmitter. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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