High-speed data transmission in mobile communication networks

• US 5,966,374 A
• Filed: 06/09/1997
• Issued: 10/12/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Rasanen, Juha
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chau
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUONGCHAU BA
• Application Number:
  US08/860,426
• Time in Patent Office: 855 Days
• Field of Search: 370/321, 370/326, 370/329, 370/337, 370/345, 370/347, 370/465, 370/468, 370/473, 370/474, 370/394
• US Class Current: 370/337
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2646 for broadband transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2659 for data rate control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0096 Channel splitting in point-to-point links
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/044 based on the type of the allocated resource
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/14 Backbone network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements

Abstract

In a mobile communication system, two or more parallel traffic channels are allocated for high-speed data transmission over the radio path. Different channel numbers are assigned to these parallel traffic channels for the duration of the connection. The data of a high-speed data signal is inserted at the distribution point of the transmission end into frames each of which is provided with a channel number indicating the parallel traffic channel used for the transmission. The frames transmitted in a traffic channel always contain the same channel number during the whole call. The frames are divided into parallel traffic channel in the sequential order according to the channel numbering. At the reception end the data contained in the frames is reassembled into a high-speed data signal in the sequential order according to the channel numbers in the frames. Frame numbering may be used within each of the traffic channels so that at least two successive frames always have a different frame number. Consequently, the allowed delay offset between the traffic channels will increase with the number of the frame numbers, and the order of the frames will be maintained under any circumstances.

Claims

1. A method for high-speed data transmission in a digital mobile communication system in which method

data is transmitted over the radio path between a mobile station and a fixed mobile communication network in a traffic channel allocated to the mobile station, the method comprising:

allocating a high-speed data signal at least two parallel traffic channels having mutually different channel numbers assigned for the duration of a connection, when a data transmission rate required by the data signal exceeds a maximum transmission rate of one traffic channel;

inserting the data from the high-speed data signal into frames at the transmission end, each frame being provided with a channel number indicating the parallel traffic channel used for the transmission;

dividing the frames into parallel traffic channels in a sequential order according to channel numbering and transmitting them to the reception end; and

reassembling the data in the frames into a high-speed data signal in the sequential order indicated by the channel numbers in the frames at the reception end.

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

using frame numbering inside each of the traffic channels so that at least two successive frames always have a different frame number, whereby the maximum delay offset between the traffic channels increases in proportion to the number of the frame numbers as compared with the absence of the frame numbering; and

reassembling the data in the frames into a high-speed data signal in the sequential order indicated by the channel and frame numbers in the frames at the reception end.

3. A method according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising:

transmitting frames in accordance with CCITT recommendation V.110 in the parallel traffic channels; and

carrying the channel numbering and the potential frame numbering in redundant status bits of the V.110 frames.

4. A method according to claim 3, comprising:

using one or more of status bits S1, S4 and S6 for the channel numbering of the parallel traffic channels.

5. A method according to claim 4, further comprising using one of the X status bits for the frame numbering within each of the traffic channels.

6. A method according to claim 4, further comprising using S3 status bit and one of the X status bits for the frame numbering within each of the traffic channels.

7. A digital mobile communication system in which a mobile station and a fixed mobile communication network each comprise a data transmitter and a data receiver having a capability for a data transmission over the radio path on the traffic channel allocated to the mobile station, wherein:

the fixed mobile communication network is arranged to allocate to a high-speed data signal two or more parallel traffic channels having mutually different channel numbers during the connection, when the transmission rate required by the data signal is higher than the maximum transmission date of one traffic channel;

the data transmitters are arranged to insert the data from the high-speed data signal into frames, each frame being provided with a channel number indicating the parallel traffic channel used for the transmission, and to divide the frames into the parallel traffic channels in the sequential order according to channel numbering; and

the data receivers are arranged to reassemble the data in the frames into a high-speed data signal in the sequential order indicated by the channel numbers in the frames.

8. A mobile communication system according to claim 7, wherein

the data transmitters are further arranged to provide the frames with frame numbering within the traffic channel so that at least two successive frames always have a different frame number, and

the data receivers are arranged to reassemble the date in the frames into a high-speed data signal in the sequential order indicated by the channel and frame numbers in the frames.

9. A mobile communication system according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the frames transmitted in the parallel traffic channels are frames in accordance with CCITT recommendation V.110, the channel numbering and the potential frame numbering of the frames being carried in redundant status bits of the V.110 frames.