Selectively maintaining and applying PPP compression in a wireless communication system

摘要

A method for selectively maintaining a compression state and applying a compression technique after a PPP renegotiation on a U m interface of a wireless communication network. A communication device (104) receives packetized data transmitted from a terminal device (102) which is coupled to the communication device via an R m interface. The communication device determines (S315) whether the received packetized data comprises compressed or uncompressed data. Upon determining that the received packetized data comprises compressed data, the communication device determines (S340) whether connection information exceeds a highest numbered decompression slot from a plurality of decompression slots on said U m interface. The communication device sets up (S330) a local decompression slot, in the communication device, which corresponds to the connection information in order to maintain said compressionsate, wherein the local decompression slot is set up in response to determining (S325) that the connection information exceeds the highest-numbered decompression slot. The communication device decompresses (S350) the compressed packetized data when it receives compressed packetized data containing said connection information.