METHOD AND DEVICES FOR DIGITAL DATA TRANSFER

摘要

A data packet is subject to corruption when sent over a radio link. In case of real-time data such as video conferencing, it is preferable not to loose any data packets, because lost packets cannot anymore be used as the time for their representation has already gone by the time they could be received if sent again. To mitigate the problems caused by the limited data bandwidth it is possible to compress the header data of a packet, preferably using inter coding to maximise compression gain. This can lead to considerable data saving especially in the case of a serial link, but is a vulnerable method as a single error in data transfer can corrupt the compressed header, the payload associated with it and also all the following data packets until the inter coding is initialised again by sending one packet with an uncompressed header. The present invention concerns the use of forward error correction encoding in conjunction with header compression to protect the compressed header and optimise the radio link usage to obtain sufficient quality of received data.