US 7,321,589 B2
MAC layer reconfiguration in a mobile communication system
Joachim Lohr, Darmstadt (Germany); Dragan Petrovic, Darmstadt (Germany); and Eiko Seidel, Darmstadt (Germany)
Assigned to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 01, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/496,743.
Claims priority of application No. 05017777 (EP), filed on Aug. 16, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0047452 A1, Mar. 01, 2007
Int. Cl. H04L 12/28 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 370—394  [370/389; 370/278; 370/336; 709/221] 46 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transmission apparatus comprising:
a sequence number setting section operable to set a transmission sequence number for a protocol data unit of a logical channel, the logical channel being mapped to an uplink transport channel, and
a transmission section operable to transmit the protocol data unit for which the transmission sequence number is set on the uplink transport channel configured with a transmission time interval,
wherein said sequence number setting section is operable to reset the transmission sequence number in case that the transmission time interval of the uplink transport channel is reconfigured.