SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-POINT HSDPA COMMUNICATION UTILIZING A MULTI-LINK RLC SUBLAYER

摘要

A method and apparatus for wireless communication may provide a multi-link RLC sublayer in an RNC (802) capable of allocating RLC PDUs among a plurality of MAC entities (804, 806) for use in a Multi-Point HSDPA network. Some aspects of the disclosure address issues relating to out-of-order delivery of the RLC PDUs to a UE (808), such as unnecessary retransmissions. That is, the disclosed multi-link RLC (802) may be capable of distinguishing between sequence number gaps that are caused by physical layer transmission failures and those caused merely by skew.