PACKET TRANSMISSION REDUNDANCY SELECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A high speed downlink packet access communication system method that supports a plurality of redundancy variations that are characterized by at least a first parameter (14) that comprises an indicator regarding self-decodability of a corresponding packet and a second parameter (15) that comprises a selection of a particular redundancy version from amongst a plurality of candidate redundancy versions. Pursuant to a preferred approach, and upon determining a need to transmit redundant information (13) as corresponds to a given packet, one automatically selects, for at least one of the first and second parameters, a specific value from amongst a plurality of candidate values and then uses the specific value to transmit the redundant information.