Method of transferring a data block in a wireless communication system

• US 8,005,115 B2
• Filed: 05/01/2008
• Issued: 08/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Sung Jun, Lee, Young Dae, Yi, Seung June, Chun, Sung Duck
• Primary Examiner(s): Ngo; Ricky
• Assistant Examiner(s): KAO, WEI PO ERIC
• Application Number:
  US12/451,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20100118890A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,209 Days
• Field of Search: 370/230, 370/230.1, 370/231, 370/235, 370/349, 370/469, 370/471, 370/473, 370/474, 370/475
• US Class Current: 370/474
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/065 using assembly or disassembly of packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]

Abstract

A method of data processing in a protocol layer of a wireless communication system, the protocol layer having a header compression function, comprises generating at least one of a control packet which includes control information, and a data packet including at least part of an upper layer data block transferred from an upper layer, generating a lower layer data block including each of the generated at least one packet to transfer the lower layer data block to a lower layer, and transferring indication information to the lower layer, the indication information being associated with a method of data processing for the lower layer data block in the lower layer.

Claims

1. A method of transferring a data block to a receiving side by a transmitting side in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

generating, by a first lower layer having a header compression function, at least one of a control packet and a data packet including at least part of an upper layer data block transferred from an upper layer;

generating, by the first lower layer, a first lower layer data block including each of the generated at least one packet to transfer the first lower layer data block to a second lower layer lower than the first lower layer, and

wherein the control packet includes control information not associated with the upper layer data block, and the method comprises;

transferring first indication information from the first lower layer to the second lower layer, the first indication information indicating whether the first lower layer data block includes the control packet or the data packet;

transferring first type indication information from the first lower layer to the second lower layer if the first indication information indicates that the first lower layer data block includes the control packet, the first type indication information indicating a type of control packet included in the first lower layer data block;

generating, by the second lower layer, a second lower layer data block based on at least one of the first indication information and the first type indication information, the second lower layer data block including at least part of the first lower layer data block transferred from the first lower layer;

transmitting, to the receiving side, second indication information indicating whether the first lower layer data block of which at least part is included in the second lower layer data block includes the control packet or the data packet; and

transmitting, to the receiving side, second type indication information if the second indication information indicates that the first lower layer data block of which at least part is included in the second lower layer data block includes the control packet, the second type indication information indicating a type of the control packet included in the second lower layer data block.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second lower layer determines, based on at least one of the first indication information and the first type indication information, at least one of whether the first lower layer data block can be segmented in the second lower layer and then can be included in different data blocks.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second lower layer determines, based on at least one of the first indication information and the first type indication information indicates whether the first lower layer data block can be concatenated with another first lower layer data block and then can be included in one data block.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first lower layer transfers to the second lower layer information indicating whether the lower layer data block is emergency data or non-emergency data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first type indication information indicates whether the control packet included in the first lower layer block includes header compression feedback information or status report information,

wherein the header compression feedback information indicates feedback information for a data block received from the receiving side and the status report information indicates whether a data block transmitted by the receiving side has been successfully received.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the control packet is generated by an entity which carries out the header compression function.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the feedback information includes information related with header compression of the data block received from the receiving side.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the second type indication information indicates whether the control packet included in the second lower layer data block includes the status report information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first indication information and the first type indication information is included in a header of the first lower layer data block and transmitted to the second lower layer.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the second indication information and the second type indication information is included in a header of the second lower layer data block and transmitted to the receiving side.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the data packet generated by the first lower layer is a compressed packet generated by the header compression function for the upper layer data block.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the first lower layer ciphers the data packet including at least part of the upper layer data block and adds the first indication information to the ciphered data packet to generate the first lower layer data block, and transfers the first lower layer data block including the ciphered data packet to the second lower layer;

and

the first lower layer does not cipher the control packet and adds the first and second indication information to the control packet to generate the first lower layer data block including the un-ciphered control packet, and transfers the first lower layer data block including the un-ciphered control packet to the second lower layer.