ENHANCED MULTIPLEXING FOR SINGLE RLC ENTITY

摘要

A method and apparatus for interrupting the lower priority packet transmission/reception for higher priority packet transmission/reception within the context of a common RLC entity is provided herein. The transmission/reception of lower priority data blocks containing data segments of a first higher layer packet is interrupted to transmit/receive higher priority data blocks containing data segments of a second higher layer packet. After the transmission/reception of a final segment of the second higher layer packet, the transmission/reception of the first higher layer packet is resumed. In some embodiments, a final segment of the second higher layer packet is encapsulated in a final higher priority data block with a remaining data segment of the first higher layer packet. The final higher priority data block further includes a transition indicator to indicate a transition from the second higher layer packet back to the first higher layer packet.

主权项

1. A method of transmitting data packets from a transmitter to a receiver within the context of a single radio link control (RLC) entity, the method comprising:
transmitting lower priority data blocks containing data segments of a first higher layer packet associated with a lower priority first packet flow context (PFC); interrupting the transmission of said first higher layer packet to transmit higher priority data blocks containing data segments of a second higher layer packet associated with a higher priority second PFC; and resuming the transmission of said first higher layer packet after transmission of a final data segment of said second higher layer packet.