APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION USING MULTI-PATH

• US 20100142435A1
• Filed: 06/11/2008
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Yong-Sun, Lee, Woo-Yong, Seung-ku, Hwang, Lee, Jae-Sup, Kim, Min-Taig, Kwon, Hyoung-Jin, Kim, Kyeougpyo, Kim, Jin-Kyeong
• Application Number:
  US12/602,919
• Publication Number:
  US 20100142435A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/315
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/026 Co-operative diversity, e.g. using fixed or mobile stations as relays
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2606 Arrangements for base station coverage control, e.g. by using relays in tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/06 using space diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1825 Adaptation of specific ARQ protocol parameters according to transmission conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1867 Arrangements specially adapted for the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0092 Error control systems characterised by the topology of the transmission link
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/22 Alternate routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/247 using M:N active or standby paths
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/12 based on transmission quality or channel quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/205 using topographical information, e.g. hills, high rise buildings

Abstract

Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data by using a multi-path. The multi-path is established between two transceivers, data is transmitted via each path at a predetermined time, a data receipt acknowledge control signal ACK of each path is received, and a path by which the data receipt acknowledge control signal ACK is not received is determined. Therefore, the path by which the data receipt acknowledge control signal ACK is not received is not used any further but data is transmitted via a path by which the data is previously transmitted, so that the data can be transmitted even if a line of sight (LOS) of the two transceivers comprising a directional antenna is blocked by a person or an obstacle.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting data by using a multi-path including a direct path in a line of sight (LOS) and at least one relay path formed between a transmission end and a reception end by cross-selecting one or more available paths determined based on whether a data receipt acknowledge control signal is received from the multi-path.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising:

transmitting data by cross-selecting the one or more available paths according to a previously established rule; and

adjusting the one or more available paths based on whether the data receipt acknowledge control signal with regard to the transmitted data is received.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the transmitting of the data comprises:

searching for one or more available paths according to data that is to be transmitted, and registering one or more found available paths in a path list; and

transmitting the data by cross-selecting the registered one or more available paths.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the adjusting of the one or more available paths comprises;

deleting a path by which the data receipt acknowledge control signal with regard to the transmitted data is not received from an available path list; and

re-registering the deleted path in the available path list if the data receipt acknowledge control signal with regard to the data transmitted via the deleted path is received after a predetermined period of time passes.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein whether the predetermined period of time passes is determined according to whether a timer or a path delete count exceeds a threshold value.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining whether the one or more available paths include a deleted path before transmitting the data;

if the one or more available paths include the deleted path, determining whether a predetermined period of time passes after the path is deleted; and

transmitting the data via the deleted path in order to determine whether the deleted path can be available when the predetermined period of time passes.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining if it is necessary to re-transmit the data transmitted via a path by which the data receipt acknowledge control signal is not received;

when it is necessary to re-transmit the data, determining whether a transmission failure count of the path by which the data receipt acknowledge control signal is not received exceeds a threshold value;

when the transmission failure count does not exceed the threshold value, re-transmitting the data via the path by which the data receipt acknowledge control signal is not received; and

when the transmission failure count exceeds the threshold value, re-transmitting the data via a path that is selected from paths excluding the path by which the data receipt acknowledge control signal is not received.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein, when the transmission failure count exceeds the threshold value, deleting the path by which the data receipt acknowledge control signal is not received from the available path list.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein an MAC header of the transmitted data includes path information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the relay path is formed by a relay device capable of amplification and transmission or a relay device formed of a radio wave reflecting medium.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the method is applied to a wireless communication system that uses a directional antenna or a phase array antenna providing directional characteristics.

28. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is applied to a wireless communication system that uses a directional antenna or a phase array antenna providing directional characteristics.

12. A method of receiving data using a multi-path, comprising:

receiving the data, which is cross-selected and transmitted, according to a previously established rule, from one or more available paths determined based on whether a data receipt acknowledge control signal is received among the multi-path including a direct path in an LOS and at least one relay path formed between a transmission end and a reception end;

verifying the received data and extracting path information from the verified data; and

generating a data receipt acknowledge control signal and transmitting the data receipt acknowledge control signal via a path included in the extracted path information.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein an MAC header of the data receipt acknowledge control signal includes the extracted path information.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the data receipt acknowledge control signal is in regard to one or more pieces of the received data.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the method is applied to a wireless communication system that uses a directional antenna or a phase array antenna providing directional characteristics.

16. A multi-path managing method used to transmit/receive data, the method comprising:

preparing a list of one or more available paths among a multi-path including a direct path in an LOS and at least one relay path formed between a transmission end and a reception end;

deleting a path by which a data receipt acknowledge control signal with regard to transmitted data is not received among the one or more available paths that are cross-selected according to a previously established rule from an available path list, and registering the deleted path in a delete path list; and

re-registering the deleted path in the available path list if the data receipt acknowledge control signal with regard to the data transmitted via the deleted path is received after a predetermined period of time passes.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the preparing of the list of one or more available paths comprises:

selecting candidate paths by searching for one or more available paths according to data that is to be transmitted; and

registering a path by which the data receipt acknowledge control signal with regard to the data transmitted is received from among the candidate paths in the list of one or more available paths.

18. An apparatus for transmitting data using multi-path including a direct path in an LOS and at least one relay path formed between a transmission end and a reception end by cross-selecting one or more available paths determined based on whether a data receipt acknowledge control signal is received from the multi-path.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, comprising:

a data transmitting unit transmitting data by cross-selecting the one or more available paths according to a previously established rule; and

a path managing unit adjusting the one or more available paths based on whether the data receipt acknowledge control signal with regard to the transmitted data is received.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the path managing unit searches for one or more available paths according to data that is to be transmitted, registers one or more found available paths in a path list, deletes a path by which the data receipt acknowledge control signal with regard to the transmitted data is not received from an available path list, and re-registers the deleted path in the available path list if the data receipt acknowledge control signal with regard to the data transmitted via the deleted path is received after a predetermined period of time passes.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein whether the predetermined period of time passes is determined according to whether a timer or a path delete count exceeds a threshold value.

22. The apparatus of claim 18, further comprising:

a path information inserting unit inserting path information in an MAC header of the transmitted data.

23. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the relay path is formed by a relay device capable of amplification and transmission or a relay device formed of a radio wave reflecting medium.

24. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the apparatus is applied to a wireless communication system that uses a directional antenna or a phase array antenna providing directional characteristics.

25. An apparatus for receiving data by using a multi-path, the apparatus comprising:

a data receiving unit receiving the data, which is cross-selected and transmitted, according to a previously established rule, from one or more available paths determined based on whether a data receipt acknowledge control signal is received among the multi-path including a direct path in an LOS and at least one relay path formed between a transmission end and a reception end;

a data verifying unit verifying the received data and extracting path information from the verified data; and

a data receipt acknowledge control signal generating unit generating a data receipt acknowledge control signal with regard to data that is transmitted via a path included in the extracted path information.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the data receipt acknowledge control signal generating unit inserts the extracted path information in an MAC header of the data receipt acknowledge control signal.

27. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the data receipt acknowledge control signal is in regard to one or more pieces of the received data.