Method and apparatus for radio link control padding for enhanced general packet radio service

摘要

A method (300) for radio link control padding is shown. In its simplest form, it can include the steps of: providing (310) N bytes of data from a base station; interleaving (320) the N bytes of data using a turbo-interleaver; pre-pending (330) K bytes of zero padding; and passing (340) the interleaved N bytes and the pre-pended K bytes to a convolutional encoder to provide an output comprising a parity sequence adapted for further processing and providing a radio link control block for an enhanced general packet radio service 2-B mobile device. The method (300) is particularly adapted for use with Chase and incremental redundancy combining, which can provide fast, reliable and efficient general packet radio service to a 2-B mobile device.