A METHOD OF PROVIDING A GAP INDICATION DURING A STICKY ASSIGNMENT

摘要

A method and a corresponding apparatus for data transmission during a sticky assignment of a transmit resource in a communication system is described, the method comprising determining if any transmit data packets are queued and ready to be transmitted, transmitting the data packets using the assigned resource, if it is determined that one or more data packets are ready for transmission and transmitting a predetermined erasure signature packet using the assigned resource, if it is determined that no data packets are ready for transmission. Also the corresponding reception method and apparatus arc described.