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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2008
Moo Ryong Jeong, Albany, CA (US);
Ismail Guvenc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Fujio Watanabe, Union City, CA (US);
Moo Ryong Jeong, Albany, CA (US);
Ismail Guvenc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Fujio Watanabe, Union City, CA (US);
NTT Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for synchronized multi-link transmission in an ARQ-enabled multi-hop wireless network. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing pre-transmission of a packet to hops to enable a base station and the plurality of hops in the network to transmit the packet synchronously to one or more mobile stations in the wireless communication system; and performing one or more re-transmissions of the packet at a set of one or more hops forming a path in the network if time remaining before a synchronized transmission time for the path as a whole is greater than a threshold.