1. A method in a wireless communication system employing a communication protocol in which a retransmission timeout value
is calculated by a sender from a round-trip time, the method for preventing a spurious retransmission during a planned interruption
of communications, the method comprising:
determining whether the planned interruption is about to occur; and
in response to determining that the planned interruption is about to occur, progressively increasing the round-trip time for
each data segment in a plurality of successive data segments sent before the planned interruption occurs, such that the retransmission
timeout value calculated from the progressively increasing round-trip time becomes larger than a time required to complete
the planned interruption, thereby preventing the spurious retransmission.
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