Retransmission of Data Lost Between a Sender and a Receiver

摘要

A method is provided for receiving a realtime data stream transmitted at a given speed in the form of packets between a transmitter and a receiver in a telecommunication network. The receiver has a buffer memory for storing the received packets. The method includes the following steps after detection of a loss of packets: requesting retransmission of the lost packets at a speed that is higher than the given speed; receiving retransmitted packets and realtime packets, the retransmitted packets having been transmitted with priority in relation to the realtime packets; and storing the retransmitted packets in the buffer memory.