Packet communicating apparatus

• US 7,860,065 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2005
• Issued: 12/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takata, Tatsuhiko, Oishi, Shinji, Oishi, Yuichiro, Koga, Tsuneaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Ryman; Daniel J
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEE, JAE YOUNG
• Application Number:
  US11/050,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20060007952A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,154 Days
• Field of Search: 370/389, 370/465
• US Class Current: 370/335
• 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

Abstract

To provide a packet communicating apparatus that can reduce a padding area. A packet communicating apparatus used in a high speed packet communication in a radio mobile communication network includes: an SDU→PDU divider for dividing packet data to be transmitted to an opposite entity, into protocol data units; and a synchronous control signal generator 223 for jointly putting a control signal to change a protocol data unit length, on a padding area of a protocol data unit occurring at a time of the division.

Claims

1. A packet communicating controller used in a high speed packet communication in a communication network, comprising:

a dividing portion of the controller to divide a service data unit to be transmitted to an opposite entity, into protocol data units, each of which has a length of a protocol data unit, wherein if a length of a part of the service data unit smaller than the length of the protocol data unit is generated at a division, protocol data units including one of the protocol data units, which contains the part of the service data unit and a padding area, are transmitted to the opposite entity;

a monitoring portion of the controller to monitor an occurrence status of padding areas of protocol data units;

a determining portion of the controller to determine change of the length of the protocol data unit used for the division of the service data unit, in accordance with a result of monitoring by the monitoring portion;

a jointly putting portion of the controller to jointly put a control signal to change the length of the protocol data unit, on the padding area of the one of protocol data units occurring at the time of the division; and

a changing portion of the controller to change the length of the protocol data unit, in accordance with a result of monitoring by the monitoring portion,

wherein the monitoring portion counts a number of times that the one of the protocol data units including the padding area, which has a given occupation rate to the length of the one of the protocol data units, occurs, and a next service data unit used to fill the padding area of the one of the protocol data units does not occur within a given unit time, and the determining portion of the controller determines the change of the length of the protocol data unit used for the division of the service data unit if the number of times is equal to or more a given number of times.

2. The packet communicating controller according to claim 1, in which the jointly putting portion of the controller jointly puts the control signal including the length of the protocol data unit after the change and information indicating a time when the length of the protocol data unit is changed, on the padding area, between the packet communicating apparatus itself and the opposite entity.

3. The packet communicating controller according to claim 2, further comprising:

a receiving portion of the controller to receive the protocol data units from the opposite entity;

an assembling portion of the controller to assemble the protocol data units received by the receiving portion into a service data unit, in accordance with the length of the protocol data unit reported from a transmission source of the protocol data units received by the receiving portion;

an extracting portion of the controller to extract padding data, from a padding area of the protocol data units received by the receiving portion; and

a reporting portion of the controller to report a control signal to change the length of the protocol data unit to the assembling portion if the extracted padding data includes the control signal.

4. The packet communicating controller according to claim 3, in which:

the reporting portion of the controller reports whether or not the padding area of the protocol data units received from the opposite entity includes a transmission confirmation signal indicating that the control signal is transmitted to the opposite entity, to the jointly putting portion; and

the jointly putting portion of the controller re-transmits the protocol data units, in which the control signal is jointly put on the padding area, until the transmission confirmation signal is received.

5. A packet communicating controller used in high speed packet communication in a communication network, comprising:

a dividing portion of the controller to divide a first data unit to be transmitted to an opposite entity, into second data units, each of which has a length of a second data unit;

a monitoring portion of the controller to monitor padding which is occurred in one of the second data units when a first data unit is divided by the length of the second data unit; and

a changing portion of the controller to change the length of the second data unit in accordance with the result of monitoring by the monitoring portion; and

a determining portion of the controller to determine a change of the length of the second data unit used for the division of the first data unit if a number of times that the one of the second data units including the padding, which has a given occupation rate to the length of the one of the second data units, and a next first data unit used to fill the padding of the one of the second data units does not occur within a given unit time is equal to or more a given number of times.