Use of the FP header to signal the RNC that the node B has not been able to determine or has not been able to accurately determine the number of retransmissions

摘要

The FP header is used to signal the RNC that the Node B has not been able to determine or has not been able to accurately determine the number of retransmissions. A first embodiment is to reserve a bit pattern for use in the ‘Number of HARQ retransmissions’ field on the Iub frame protocol DATA FRAME header to indicate that Node B does not know the actual number of retransmissions. A second embodiment is to define a one bit flag on Iub/Iur FP DATA FRAME header to indicate that the value set in the “Number of HARQ Retransmissions” in the FP header is an estimated/guessed value by Node B or not.