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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2014
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Ansgar Scherb, Lauf an der Pegnitz, DE;
Harald Bauer, Nuremberg, DE;
Michael Herrmann, Nuremberg, DE;
Manoj Sukumaran, Nuremberg, DE;
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A technique for storing softbits of messages received according to a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) protocol is disclosed. As to a method aspect of the technique, a first storage () and a second storage () are provided. The first storage and a second storage include a plurality of memory segments () allocatable to HARQ processes. A first message related to a first HARQ process is received. The first message is protected by a channel code of the HARQ protocol and represented by softbits. The softbits of the first message are stored in a first segment of the first storage. The first segment is allocated to the first HARQ process. The first storage is accessible by a channel decoding unit () for decoding the channel code. If a number of allocated segments in the first storage, the decoding of which has not been yet completed, exceeds a threshold, the allocation for the first HARQ process is changed from the first segment in the first storage to a second segment in the second storage.