SIGNALING OF REDUNDANCY VERSION AND NEW DATA INDICATION

摘要

Example methods and apparatus for communicating encoded data blocks (700) in wireless communication systems are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method (200) for receiving an encoded data block (700) includes receiving (210) a data transmission including a subset of a plurality of bits of the encoded data block (700). The example method (200) also includes receiving (220) a first control signal (610) indicating whether the received subset is a first received subset associated with the encoded data block (700) or whether one or more subsets were previously received for the encoded data block (700). The example method (200) also further includes receiving (230) a second control signal (620), the second control signal (620) having a first state and a second state. In the example method (200), the first state of the second control signal (620) indicates that the received subset includes a first predefined subset of the plurality of bits of the encoded data block (700) and the second state of the second control signal (620) indicates that the received subset includes one of a plurality of other predefined subsets of the plurality of bits of the encoded data block (700). In this example embodiment, determining which of the other predefined subsets is included in the received subset is based on one or more system parameters of the wireless communication system (102). Further in this example, the state of the second control signal (620) is selectable between its first state and its second state on a data transmission by data transmission basis, regardless of whether or not one or more subsets of the encoded data block (700) were previously received.