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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kjell Östman, Halikko, FI;
Assignee:
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and corresponding method for responding to a repeat request in a wireless communication system in which packets are communicated according to a modulation and coding scheme, with one or more packets provided in a frame communicated during a transmission time interval, the method including the steps of: if a repeat request is received, then ordering in a second order the bits of the packets associated with the repeat request, and repeating the steps up to and including retransmitting the packets associated with the repeat request; wherein in the second order, the symbols constituting the modulation are generated differently than in the original transmission.