Data packet communications in a multi-radio access environment

摘要

More than one radio-access technology is supported in an apparatus, and channel-coding functions in the apparatus are shared between at least two of said more than one radio-access technology.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
communicating data using more than one radio-access technology in an apparatus comprising at least one radio frequency transmitter, at least one radio frequency receiver, and at least one antenna, wherein each radio-access technology includes a dedicated layer-2 functionality; and sharing a channel-coding function in the apparatus between at least two of said more than one radio-access technology, wherein sharing the channel-coding function comprises using the shared channel-coding function to process a data packet of a user so as to perform channel coding by each of said at least two radio-access technologies to prepare its simultaneous transmission to a destination by said at least two radio-access technologies.