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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2006
Nick W. Whinnett, Marlborough, GB;
David C. Padfield, Marlborough, GB;
Nick W. Whinnett, Marlborough, GB;
David C. Padfield, Marlborough, GB;
Motorola Mobility, Inc., Libertyville, IL (US);
Abstract
A base station () operates a hybrid retransmission scheme for a communication to a first subscriber unit () over a communication channel of an air interface of a cellular communication system. The base station () comprises a retransmission parameter controller () which sets a transmission parameter, such as a transmit power or an error correcting scheme, for a transmission of the communication in response to an operating point for the retransmission scheme. A CQI processor () determines a channel quality indication for the communication channel and a variation processor () determines a variation measure of a variation of the channel quality indication. The variation measure can for example be a rate of change. An operating point controller () sets the operating point in response to the variation measure. The invention may allow improved setting of transmission parameters for initial transmissions thereby providing higher throughput, reduced resource consumption and reduced delay.