Apparatus and method for use in effecting automatic repeat requests in wireless multiple access communications systems

摘要

In a wireless multiple access communications system a channel resource is managed by utilizing traffic segments and acknowledgment segments to determine if data traffic needs to be retransmitted. traffic data and has a prescribed finite time interval and bandwidth. Each traffic segment in a downlink or an uplink is associated with an acknowledgment segment in the uplink or downlink, respectively, in a fixed one-to-one manner. A base station uses the acknowledgment segments in the downlink to acknowledge the associated traffic segments successfully received in the uplink. A wireless terminal that receives a downlink traffic segment uses the associated acknowledgment segment in the uplink to acknowledge the traffic segment. The base station monitors all the acknowledgment segments to determine whether any of the traffic segments needs to be retransmitted.