| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to a new error control paradigm in a packet switched network that is particularly advantageous for multicast transmission. A transmission Status vector TSV (T) is updated at the sender side whenever a new outgoing data packet (Dj-1) is scheduled for transmission. A corresponding Reception Status Vector RSV (R) is similarly updated at the receive side whenever a new incoming and correctly indexed data packet (Dj-1) is validly received. As soon as a missing or corrupted data packet (Dj) is detected, the update of the RSV is suspended. A request is then sent to the sender to get the current TSV's value, or a part thereof. The erroneous data packet is then recovered from the current TSV'S value (sk,m), from the lastly updated RSV'S value (sj-1), and from otherwise validly received data packets (Dj+1, ..., Dk). The present invention more specifically relates to a transmitting unit (100) and a receiving unit (200) implementing that paradigm, and correspondingly to a method for protecting a flow of indexed data packets against data lost or data corruption, and a method for recovering a missing or corrupted data packet within a flow of indexed data packets. |
