Method and device for use in frame acknowledgement

• US 9,294,248 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2012
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nufront Mobile Communications Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nufront Mobile Communications Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Bao, Dongshan, Zhou, Yubao, Yao, Huijuan, Yu, Xiaoyan, Liu, Shenfa, Xie, Xiaoqiang, Yan, Desheng, Yang, Zhizuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Rose, Kerri
• Application Number:
  US14/008,327
• Publication Number:
  US 20140086222A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,460 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1621 Group acknowledgement, i.e. the acknowledgement message defining a range of identifiers, e.g. of sequence numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1685 the supervisory signal being transmitted in response to a specific request, e.g. to a polling signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1825 Adaptation of specific ARQ protocol parameters according to transmission conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2212/00 Encapsulation of packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network

Abstract

Provided in the present invention are a method and device for use in frame acknowledgement. The method comprises: bearing an immediate acknowledgement instruction into a data frame, the immediate acknowledgement instruction is for use in instructing an immediate return frame acknowledgement response; and transmitting the data frame having the immediate acknowledgement instruction attached thereto.

Claims

1. A frame acknowledgement method comprising:

encapsulating an instant acknowledgement indication in data frame, wherein the instant acknowledgement is used to indicate returned frame acknowledgement in a next time period, the next time period being an up physical frame period corresponding to a down physical frame period, or a down physical frame period corresponding to a last up physical frame period; and

sending the data frame that carries the instant acknowledgement indication out.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, the instant acknowledgement indication is encapsulated in the frame header of data frame.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the instant acknowledgement is in an up physical period returned frame, sending the data frame in a down physical period of the frame; and

when the instant acknowledgement is in a down physical period returned frame acknowledgement of next frame, sending the data frame in an up physical period of the frame.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

caching an unacknowledged frame;

judging whether a caching capacity threshold is reached; and

when the caching capacity threshold is reached, triggering a delivering of instant acknowledgement indication.

5. A frame acknowledgement device comprising:

encapsulation module that encapsulates instant acknowledgement indication in a data frame, when the instant acknowledgement indication indicates the instant returned frame acknowledgement in a next time period, the next time period being an up physical frame period corresponding to a down physical frame period, or a down physical frame period corresponding to a last up physical frame period; and

sending module that delivers the data frame of the instant acknowledgement indication.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein, the encapsulation module encapsulates the instant acknowledgement indication in the frame header of the data frame.

7. The device of claim 5, wherein,

the sending module indicates an up physical period returned frame acknowledgement of this frame, in a down physical period of this frame;

or

the sending module indicates the down physical period returned frame acknowledgement of a next frame, in the up physical period of this frame.

8. The device of claim 5, further comprising:

caching module that caches the unacknowledged frame;

judging module that judges whether a caching capacity threshold is reached; and

processing module that triggers the delivering of instant acknowledgement indication when the caching capacity threshold is reached.

9. A frame acknowledgement method comprising:

receiving a frame; and

analyze a frame header of the frame to obtain the acknowledgement method;

when the acknowledgement method is instant acknowledgement, sending frame acknowledgement in a next time period, the next time period being an up physical frame period corresponding to a down physical frame period, or a down physical frame period corresponding to a last up physical frame period; and

when the acknowledgement method is delayed acknowledgement, sending frame acknowledgement when it has free resources.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein,

when the frame is received in the down physical period of the frame, analyzing the acknowledgement method and when the acknowledgement method is instant acknowledgement, sending frame acknowledgement in an up physical period of this frame;

and

when the frame is received in the up physical period of the frame, analyzing the acknowledgement method, and if the acknowledgement method is instant acknowledgement, sending frame acknowledgement in the down physical period of the next frame.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein, in the present time period, when one or many users receive the instant acknowledgement indication, a user who receives the indication will send frame acknowledgement in the next time period.

12. A frame acknowledgement device comprising:

receiving module that receives frame;

analyzing module that analyzes a frame header in the frame and obtains an acknowledgement method; and

processing module that carries out frame acknowledgement according to the acknowledgment method, wherein when the acknowledgement method is instant acknowledgement, sending frame acknowledgement in a next time period, and when the acknowledgement method is delayed acknowledgement, sending frame acknowledgement when it has free resources,

wherein the next time period is an up physical frame period corresponding to a down physical frame period, or a down physical frame period corresponding to a last up physical frame period.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein, the processing module receives the frame in the down physical period of the frame and analyzes the acknowledgement method to be instant acknowledgement, sending frame acknowledgement in the up physical period of the frame.

14. The device of claim 12, wherein when the processing module receives the frame in the up physical period of the frame and analyzes the acknowledgement method to be instant acknowledgement, sending frame acknowledgement in the down physical period of a next frame.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein when one or multiple users receive the frame acknowledgement as instant acknowledgement in the present time period, the processing module will send the frame acknowledgement to the users in the next time period.