Packet transferring/transmitting method and mobile communication system

Abstract

A packet transferring / transmitting method is provided for use in a mobile communication system 50. In this packet transferring / transmitting method, an upper node 1 determines the implementation of handover (determination step), and a handover addressing node 2 transfers, of a plurality of packets, a non-transmitted residual packet to a handover addressed node 3, and the upper node 1 transmits a new packet to the handover addressed node 3 (transfer / transmission step). This enables maintaining the number of users to be accommodated while securing a wide bandwidth, sharing a line with high efficiency at soft handover, avoiding data residual in the case of the employment of variable communication rate, and preventing an increase in retransmission.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 057,990, filed Feb. 15, 2005, the entirety of which is incorporated herein by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD [0002] The present invention relates to soft handover at high-speed large-capacity communications in a W-CDMA (Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access: Wideband CDMA) system, and more particularly to a packet transferring / transmitting method and mobile communication system suitable for DSCH (Downlink Shared Channel) and HS-DSCH (High Speed Downlink Shared Channel). BACKGROUND ART [0003] In recent years, the development of a CDMA mobile communication system has been in a prompt advance. Moreover, a commercial service based on the W-CDMA system has started, which enables the transmission / reception of large-capacity data such as moving images along with voices and still images included in the current main services. In this situation, as a group for the standa...

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Benefits of technology

[0020] This eliminates the need for the handover addressed node to transmit the same signal through the use of a plurality of channels to the mobile unit at handover, which enables an increase in number of users and an improvement of communication quality and achieves the effective utilization of transmission lines and radio resources.

[0032] This mobile communication system can also suspend the transmission of data from the aforesaid upper apparatus to the aforesaid handover addressed node in the middle of the transfer by the transferring means, which can contribute to the optimization of radio resources and can improve the cost performance in the system.

Problems solved by technology

This increased bandwidth enhances the interference in a radio zone, thereby causing the degradation of the communication quality and decreasing the number of users to be accommodated.

For solving the increase of the bandwidth and the decrease of the number of users through the use of a conventional technique, there is a need to improve the throughput required in each node and each transmission line and to increase the number of facilities, which leads to a considerable demerit in view of cost performance.

On the other hand, difficulty is experienced in simultaneously transmitting the same data to a plurality of channels at all times like the soft handover.

However, an increase of this retransmission causes the degradation of the communication rate.

(S4) Likewise, the increase of the retransmission leads to an increase in unnecessary traffic, which presses the throughput (for example, the capability of protocol processing, signal transmission / reception, charge processing and others) of each node and each transmission line.

That is, the cost performance of the facility deteriorates.

(S5) the real-time performance on communications degrades, which leads to the degradation of quality of service.

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