Method of data block transmitting

• US 8,340,161 B2
• Filed: 11/10/2008
• Issued: 12/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Yong Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Liu, Shuwang
• Assistant Examiner(s): NEFF, MICHAEL R
• Application Number:
  US12/741,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20100260241A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,506 Days
• Field of Search: 375/219, 375/259
• US Class Current: 375/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0007 by modifying the frame length
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0057 Block codes H04L1/0061, H04L1/0064 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• 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

A method of transmitting data to guarantee reliability and, more particularly, a method of efficiently transmitting data by adjusting the size of data blocks according to a channel environment are provided. The method includes dividing input data into a plurality of blocks and generating one or more block sets using the plurality of blocks, coding a first block set of the one or more block sets and transmitting a predetermined number of coded blocks in the first coded block set to a receiver, receiving a signal indicating the state of a channel environment from the receiver, and packing a more increased or decreased number of coded blocks than the predetermined number of coded blocks according to the signal and transmitting the coded blocks to the receiver. By this configuration, it is possible to efficiently adjust a block error rate by adaptively increasing or decreasing the size of blocks according to the channel environment.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting data in a radio access system, the method comprising:

generating one or more block sets using a plurality of blocks, wherein the plurality of blocks are divided from an input data;

coding a first block set of the one or more block sets to produce a first coded block set;

transmitting a predetermined number of coded blocks in the first coded block set to a receiver;

receiving a signal indicating a state of a channel environment from the receiver; and

packing an increased or decreased number of coded blocks, as compared to the predetermined number of coded blocks, according to the signal and transmitting the packed coded blocks to the receiver,

wherein, if the signal indicates that the channel environment is better than a predetermined threshold, a second block set of the one or more block sets is coded to produce a second coded block set, a coded block is borrowed from the second coded block set, and the increased number of coded blocks are packed and transmitted to the receiver, and

wherein random coefficients used for coding the first block set and the second block set are identical to each other.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, if the signal indicates that the channel environment is worse than the predetermined threshold, the decreased number of coded blocks are packed and transmitted to the receiver.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the increased or decreased number of coded blocks are increased or decreased from the predetermined number of coded blocks one by one.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein one or more coded block sets are generated by coding the one or more block sets by a transmitter, and coded blocks included in the one or more coded block sets are mutually independent.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein a random linear coding (RLC) method is used as a method of coding the one or more block sets.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the signal for indicating the state of the channel environment is a channel quality indication (CQI) signal.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined number of coded blocks further includes information about the random coefficients.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the information about the random coefficients is one of a matrix configured by the random coefficients, a seed for generating the random coefficients or indexes indicating the random coefficients.

9. A method of transmitting data in a radio access system, the method comprising:

generating one or more block sets using a plurality of blocks, wherein the plurality of blocks are divided from an input data;

coding a first block set of the one or more block sets to produce a second coded block set;

transmitting a predetermined number of coded blocks in the first coded block set to a receiver;

receiving a signal indicating a state of a channel environment from the receiver; and

packing an increased or decreased number of coded blocks, as compared to the predetermined number of coded blocks, according to the signal and transmitting the packed coded blocks to the receiver,

wherein, if the signal indicates that the channel environment is better than a predetermined threshold, the increased number of coded blocks are selected from the first coded block set and are packed and transmitted, and

wherein a random coefficient used for coding the increased number of coded blocks is mutually independent from a random coefficient used for coding the predetermined number of coded blocks.

10. A device configured to transmit data in a radio access system, the device comprising:

a processor configured to

generate one or more block sets using a plurality of blocks, wherein the plurality of blocks are divided from an input data,

code a first block set of the one or more block sets to produce a first coded block set,

transmit a predetermined number of coded blocks in the first coded block set to a receiver,

receive a signal indicating a state of a channel environment from the receiver, and

pack an increased or decreased number of coded blocks, as compared to the predetermined number of coded blocks, according to the signal and transmit the packed coded blocks to the receiver,

wherein, if the signal indicates that the channel environment is better than a predetermined threshold, a second block set of the one or more block sets is coded to produce a second coded block set, a coded block is borrowed from the second coded block set, and the increased number of coded blocks are packed and transmitted to the receiver, and

wherein random coefficients used for coding the first block set and the second block set are identical to each other.