JP5602900B2

3G

Title

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA BLOCKS DURING SOFT HANDOVER

Application Number:

JP20130043070

Publication Date:

08-10-2014

Current Assignee:

Family ID:

Application Date:

05-03-2013

Declaring Company:

Publication Country:

US

Priority Date:

05-11-2003

Title

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA BLOCKS DURING SOFT HANDOVER

Application Number:

JP20130043070

Family ID:

Publication Country:

US

Publication Date:

08-10-2014

Application Date:

05-03-2013

Priority Date:

05-11-2003

Current Assignee:

Declaring Company:

Abstract  Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that re-ordering of successful transmissions cannot be accomplished since a complete set of successful transmissions may not be available within any one of Node-Bs in a soft handover macro-diversity operation.

SOLUTION: A method and apparatus for processing data blocks during soft handover is a wireless communication system which includes at least two enhanced uplink soft handover 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. When 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 successful in-sequence transmission to higher protocol layers. When the RNC receives two or more copies of a successfully decoded data block the RNC discards the extra successfully decoded data block copies.

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