Method and apparatus for carrying packetized voice and data in wireless communication networks
First Claim
1. A method for increasing an average data transmission rate in a wireless communication system carrying packetized information, comprising:
- determining the bit size of a payload for transmission from a transmitter to at least one receiver, wherein the transmitter communicates with the at least one receiver through a traffic channel and at least one additional channel;
if the bit size of the payload is less than or equal to a maximum frame size of a traffic channel frame, then transmitting the payload on the traffic channel; and
if the bit size of the payload is greater than the maximum frame size of the traffic channel frame, then transmitting the payload on the traffic channel and a control channel concurrently, wherein the payload has been distributed between a traffic channel frame and a control channel frame.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing transmission delay in a wireless communication system that carries packetized voice and data information. Interruptions in the traffic channels cause loss of synchronization between a header compressor and a header decompressor. Rather than transmitting resynchronization information on the traffic channel, the information dropped by an interruption is re-transmitted on a non-traffic channel in parallel with the traffic channel. At the remote station, information from the traffic channel and the non-traffic channel is reassembled before input into the decompressor. Alternatively, the non-traffic channel can be used to carry overflow information so that a higher average data rate can be achieved than the average data rate of the traffic channel alone.
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1. A method for increasing an average data transmission rate in a wireless communication system carrying packetized information, comprising:
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determining the bit size of a payload for transmission from a transmitter to at least one receiver, wherein the transmitter communicates with the at least one receiver through a traffic channel and at least one additional channel; if the bit size of the payload is less than or equal to a maximum frame size of a traffic channel frame, then transmitting the payload on the traffic channel; and if the bit size of the payload is greater than the maximum frame size of the traffic channel frame, then transmitting the payload on the traffic channel and a control channel concurrently, wherein the payload has been distributed between a traffic channel frame and a control channel frame. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus for increasing an average data transmission rate in a wireless communication system carrying packetized information, comprising:
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means for determining the bit size of a payload for transmission from a transmitter to at least one receiver, wherein the transmitter communicates with the at least one receiver through a traffic channel and at least one additional channel; means for transmitting the payload on the traffic channel if the bit size of the payload is less than or equal to a maximum frame size of a traffic channel frame; and means for transmitting the payload on the traffic channel and a control channel concurrently if the bit size of the payload is greater than the maximum frame size of the traffic channel frame, wherein the payload has been distributed between a traffic channel frame and a control channel frame.
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9. An apparatus for increasing an average data transmission rate in a wireless communication system carrying packetized information, comprising:
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a processor; a storage element coupled to the processor comprising an instruction set executable by the processor, wherein the instruction set comprise instructions for; determining the bit size of a payload for transmission from a transmitter to at least one receiver, wherein the transmitter communicates with the at least one receiver through a traffic channel and at least one additional channel; transmitting the payload on the traffic channel if the bit size of the payload is less than or equal to a maximum frame size of a traffic channel frame; and transmitting the payload on the traffic channel and a control channel concurrently if the bit size of the payload is greater than the maximum frame size of the traffic channel frame, wherein the payload has been distributed between a traffic channel frame and a control channel frame.
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