| 摘要 |
<p>In a digital communication system, a method is provided for recognizing and acting upon differences in information field characteristics when transmission errors are detected. Information having more than one field protected by a channel code is received and decoded according to the channel code. Based on the outcome of the decoding, fields of the information into which transmission errors fall are identified. These are called flawed fields. A characteristic of a flawed field is determined. The information is then processed according to the characteristic. In one embodiment of the invention, the syndrome of an incoming packet is computed. When the syndrome is all-zero, the packet is passed up a communication protocol stack conventionally. When the syndrome is not all-zero, the coset leader associated with the syndrome is found, and used to determine which fields of the packet are most likely flawed. Based on this determination, the packet is then rejected, corrected, or accepted without correction, according to the following method: When a critical field of the packet header is flawed, the packet is rejected. Otherwise, the packet is passed up the protocol stack with its transmission error corrected or uncorrected, depending on the importance of the fields into which transmission error fall.</p> |
