| 摘要 |
A base station, for integrating multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs) using Carrier Aggregation (CA) inlcudes a WAN MAC entity, an adapter and a WLAN entity. The adapter is connected to one of a plurality of HARQ buffers and receives DL WAN MPDUs stored in the HARQ buffer, and converts the DL WAN MPDUs into a pluarlity of DL WLAN MPDUs. The WLAN MAC entity is coupled to the adapter, receives the DL WLAN MPDUs, wherein the WAN MAC entity respectively transmit the DL WAN MPDUs through transport channels, and the WLAN MAC entity transmits the DL WLAN MPDUs to be time-aligned with the DL WAN MPDUs. |
| 主权项 |
1. A base station, for integrating multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATS) using Carrier Aggregation (CA), comprising:
a Wide Area Network (WAN) Media Access Control (MAC) entity, and the WAN MAC entity comprises:
a scheduler, assigns a plurality of Downlink (DL) WAN MAC Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) to a plurality of transport channels;a plurality of Hybrid Automatic Repeat request (HARQ) buffers, connected to the scheduler and each of the HARQ buffers respectively connects to one of the transport channels, wherein each of the HARQ buffers stores part of the DL WAN MPDUs; anda multiplexer, coupled to the scheduler, connected between the scheduler and the HARQ buffers, the multiplexer distributes the DL WAN MPDUs to the HARQ buffers according to the assignation from the scheduler; a first adapter, connected to a first HARQ buffer of the HARQ buffers, receives the DL WAN MPDUs stored in the first HARQ buffer, and converts the DL WAN MPDUs into a pluarlity of DL Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) MPDUs; and a first WLAN MAC entity, coupled to the first adapter, receives the DL WLAN MPDUs, wherein the WAN MAC entity respectively transmit the DL WAN MPDUs through the transport channels, and the first WLAN MAC entity transmits the DL WLAN MPDUs to be time-aligned with the DL WAN MPDUs. |
