TRANSMITTING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MESSAGES USING A STAGGERED UPLINK TIME SLOT

摘要

A downlink communication is transmitted/received in at least one downlink time slot. In response to the received downlink communication, an acknowledgement message is received/transmitted in an uplink time slot a fixed integer number of uplink time slots after transmission/reception of the received downlink communication. The uplink and downlink time slots are staggered by substantially a half of a time slot.

主权项

1. A wireless subscriber access unit comprising:
a transmitter configured to transmit a plurality of uplink transmissions in a plurality of time intervals to a base station; and a receiver configured to receive from the base station, a single cumulative acknowledgement message, wherein the single cumulative acknowledgement message corresponds to the plurality of uplink transmissions and indicates whether data of the plurality of uplink transmissions has been received successfully.