EP1680865B1

3G

Title

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA BLOCKS DURING SOFT HANDOVER

Application Number:

EP20040800556

Publication Date:

15-06-2011

Current Assignee:

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Application Date:

02-11-2004

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Publication Country:

US

Priority Date:

05-11-2003

Title

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA BLOCKS DURING SOFT HANDOVER

Application Number:

EP20040800556

Family ID:

Publication Country:

US

Publication Date:

15-06-2011

Application Date:

02-11-2004

Priority Date:

05-11-2003

Current Assignee:

Declaring Company:

Abstract  Abstract

A method and apparatus for processing data blocks during soft handover. The apparatus may be a wireless communication system including at least two enhanced uplink soft handover (EU-SHO) Node-Bs and a radio network controller (RNC). Each Node-B decodes a received data block and forwards the decoded data block to the RNC. If the RNC receives at least one copy of a successfully decoded data block the RNC uses a re-ordering function entity to process the copy of the successfully decoded data block to support in-sequence delivery to higher protocol layers. If the RNC receives more than one copy of a successfully decoded data block the RNC discards the extra successfully decoded data block copies. The RNC is either a serving-RNC (S-RNC) or a controllingRNC (C-RNC). Each Node-B includes a medium access control (MAC) entity that handles enhanced uplink dedicated channel (EU-DCH) functionalities.

A method and apparatus for processing data blocks during soft handover. The apparatus may be a wireless communication system including at least two enhanced uplink soft handover (EU-SHO) Node-Bs and a radio network controller (RNC). Each Node-B decodes a received data block and forwards the decoded data block to the RNC. If the RNC receives at least one copy of a successfully decoded data block the RNC uses a re-ordering function entity to process the copy of the successfully decoded data block to support in-sequence delivery to higher protocol layers. If the RNC receives more than one copy of a successfully decoded data block the RNC discards the extra successfully decoded data block copies. The RNC is either a serving-RNC (S-RNC) or a controllingRNC (C-RNC). Each Node-B includes a medium access control (MAC) entity that handles enhanced uplink dedicated channel (EU-DCH) functionalities.

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