Retransmission Protocols
The LTE downlink and uplink transmission schemes have been described from a physical layer perspective in Chapters 10 and 11 respectively. In this chapter, the operation of the two mechanisms responsible for retransmission handling in LTE, the MAC and RLC sublayers, will be described.
Retransmissions of missing or erroneous data units are handled primarily by the hybrid-ARQ mechanism in the MAC layer, complemented by the retransmission functionality of the RLC protocol. The reasons for having a two-level retransmission structure can be found in the trade-off between fast and reliable feedback of the status reports. The hybrid-ARQ mechanism targets very fast retransmissions and, consequently, feedback on success ...
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