摘要 |
In a communication system ( 100 ), a method and an accompanying apparatus provide for acknowledging reception of a packet of data. A receiver ( 400 ) at a serving base station ( 101 ) receives a message on an acknowledgement channel ( 340 ) for indicating the reception of the packet of data at a mobile station ( 102 ), and may determine an erasure of the message. A non-serving base station ( 160 ) may also receive the message on the acknowledgement channel ( 340 ) from the mobile station ( 102 ), determines a value of the message, and communicates the value of the message to the serving base station ( 101 ). The serving base station ( 101 ) changes the erasure to the value of the message, and terminates a transmission of a remainder of data units of the packet of data to the mobile station ( 102 ) when the value of the message is a positive acknowledgment from the non-serving base station ( 160 ).
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