VERFAHREN, ANORDNUNG UND KOMMUNIKATIONSGERÄT ZUR IMPLEMENTIERUNG MINIMALER AKTIVITÄT WÄHREND EINER DISKONTINUIERLICHEN ÜBERTRAGUNG

摘要

A method and a device are considered for implementing minimum activity during discontinuous transmission in a telecommunication connection used to carry a service. The service is allowed to involve transmitting upper-level scheduled silence-breaking transmissions at predetermined regular intervals during otherwise silent periods. There is determined (407, 408, 409) a maximum length of a silent period that is longer than the predetermined regular intervals between upper-level scheduled silence-breaking transmissions. A Layer 2 entity of a protocol stack observes (411) the occurrence of silent periods and transmits (412) a dummy block over the telecommunication connection if the length of an observed silent period reaches said maximum length without an upper-level scheduled silence-breaking transmission having been transmitted.