| US 7,489,691 B2 | ||
| Scheduling retransmission in access networks | ||
| Jeroen Wigard, Aalborg (Denmark); Troels Kolding, Klarup (Denmark); Preben Mogensen, Gistrup (Denmark); Pablo Ameigeiras, Aalborg (Denmark); Woonhee Hwang, Helsinki (Finland); and Hannu Häkkinen, Espoo (Finland) | ||
| Assigned to Nokia Corporation, Espoo (Finland) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 23, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/325,736. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2004/0120306 A1, Jun. 24, 2004 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04L 12/56 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—395.42 [370/230.1; 370/395.4; 370/412] | 25 Claims |
| 1. A method comprising:
providing to a network device of an access network an information indicating a retransmission status of a data packet; and
allocating a scheduling priority to the data packet based on the retransmission status information,
wherein said retransmission status information is provided for each data packet of a payload portion of a data frame,
wherein the information is provided as a flag information in a payload portion of a data frame comprising the data packet,
and the flag information is allocated to the data packet, and
wherein said allocating comprises placing the data packet at a front position in a buffer queue of said network device if
the provided information indicates a retransmission.
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