Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hye-Yeon Jeong

Jeong-Hoon Park

Sung-Wook Park

Ae-Ri Lim

An apparatus and a method for Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) in a broadband wireless access system are provided. The method includes driving a timer which operates by a preset period to synchronize ARQ between the transmitter and a receiver; after transmitting data to the receiver without error, when a driving time of the timer expires, checking whether there is data to transmit to the receiver; when there is no data to transmit to the receiver, initializing the timer; and transmitting an ARQ reset message to the receiver. Hence, the air resource consumption and the power consumption in ARQ reset can be lowered by reducing unnecessary ARQ reset.

Method and apparatus for automatic repeat reQuest (ARQ) in broadband wireless access system

A method of controlling automatic retransmission request (ARQ)-related timers in a broadband wireless access communication system is disclosed, by which reliability of a wireless link can be increased and the ARQ-related timers can be properly operated even in a handover situation. A mobile subscriber station temporarily stops an operation of the ARQ-related timers by informing a base station of a handover start when a handover situation occurs and restarts the stopped ARQ-related timers when the handover situation is finished.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Hye-Yeon Jeong