Request repeat method for data communication

• US 4,779,274 A
• Filed: 08/26/1986
• Issued: 10/18/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Etoh, Hiroshi, Takahashi, Chusei
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Jerry
• Assistant Examiner(s): BEAUSOLIEL JR, ROBERT W
• Application Number:
  US06/900,628
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• Field of Search: 371/32, 371/33
• US Class Current: 714/748
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 25/02 by signalling back receiving station to transmitting station
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/16 in which the return channel carries supervisory signals, e.g. repetition request signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/18 Automatic repetition systems, e.g. Van Duuren systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1803 Stop-and-wait protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1809 Selective-repeat protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1816 with retransmission of the same, encoded, message
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1848 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1858 Transmission or retransmission of more than one copy of acknowledgement message
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/188 Time-out mechanisms

Abstract

A request repeat system for data communication in which the receiving station transmits a signal indicating the result of reception of data transmitted thereto from the transmitting station. The receiving station transmits a signal indicating the unsatisfactory data reception repeatedly N times at the maximum until the receiving station is able to receive the data normally to request the transmitting station to transmit the data again, when the receiving station does not receive the data in a prescribed time after the receiving station has transmitted the signal indicating the unsatisfactory reception of the data to the transmitting station. Thus, the request repeat system eliminates useless communication charge necessary for restarting data communication after interruption and repetition of operation for requesting the repeated transmission of data, and hence the request repeat system is particularly effectively applicable to mobile data communication.

Claims

1. A request repeat method for data communication comprising the steps of:

(a) transmitting answering signal from a receiving station indicating readiness of reception of data;

(b) transmitting a data from a transmitting station to a receiving station;

(c) transmitting an ACK signal from said receiving station indicating a satisfactory reception of said data upon inspection of said data transmitted from said transmitting station to said receiving station;

(d) transmitting from said receiving station an NAK signal indicating the unsatisfactory reception of said data requesting to transmit said data again, when said data is not received by said receiving station in a fixed time after the receiving station transmitted said ACK signal to said transmitting station because the ACK signal has been missed due to an instantaneous transmission interruption or if an error has been found in said data;

wherein said NAK signal is repeatedly issued N times at the maximum number of issues until said receiving station is able to receive said second data when the transmission of the NAK signal or data has been missed repeatedly.

2. A request repeat method for data communication according to claim 1, wherein said NAK signal is issued after the passage of a fixed time during which the ACK signal transmitted by said receiving station has not been received by said transmitting station because the ACK signal has been missed due to an instantaneous transmission interruption or if an error has been found in said data and next data is not received by said receiving station.

3. A request repeat method for data communication according to claim 2, wherein operation for error correction effected by the receiving and transmitting sides is successively performed in repetition until the transmitting side receives an ACK signal from the receiving side.

4. A request repeat method for data communication according to claim 1, wherein said NAK signal is repeatedly issued after the passage of a fixed time when ACK first data is normally received but second data is not received by said receiving station because the ACK signal has been missed due to an instantaneous transmission interruption or if an error has been found in said data.

5. A request repeat method for data communication according to claim 4, wherein operation for error correction effected by the receiving and transmitting sides is successively performed in repetition until the transmitting side receives an ACK signal from the receiving side.

6. A request repeat method for data communication according to claim 1, wherein said transmitting station consists of a data communication apparatus for coding and decoding any transmition data for error correction, checking received data, controlling request repeat processing, and modulating and demodulating a radio wave signal carrying the transmission data, a general purpose computer connected with said data communication apparatus for adding an error correcting code, a check code, and the like to the transmission data.

7. A request repeat method for data communication according to claim 6, wherein operation for error correction effected by the receiving and transmitting sides is successively performed in repetition until the transmitting side receives an ACK signal from the receiving side.

8. A request repeat method for data communication according to claim 1, wherein said receiving station consists of data communication apparatus for coding and encoding received transmission data for error correction, checking said data, controlling requesting repeat processing, and modulating and demodulating a radio wave signal carrying said transmission data, a general purpose computer connected with said data communication apparatus for effecting error correction and checks that the received data is correct, and transmiting a NAK signal by one time or plurality of times to said transmitting station after prescribed timing in accordance with predetermined transmission procedure of the present invention provided there is any error in the received transmission data, while transmitting an ACK signal to the transmitting side provided there is no error in the received transmission data.

9. A request repeat method for data communication according to claim 8, wherein operation for error correction effected by the receiving and transmitting sides is successively performed in repetition until the transmitting side receives an ACK signal from the receiving side.

10. A request repeat method for data communication according to claim 1, wherein operation for error correction effected by the receiving and transmitting sides is successively performed in repetition until the transmitting side receives an ACK signal from the receiving side