IEEE C802.16m-09/0002
Project
IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access Working Group <http://ieee802.org/16>
Title
Error Recovery for MAC Management Messages
Date
Submitted
2009-01-05
Source(s)
Yair Bourlas, Lei Wang, Erik Colban, ybourlas@nextwave.com
Ken Stanwood
NextWave Wireless Inc.
Sean McBeath, Jin Lei
Huawei Technologies
smcbeath@huawei.com
Sung Kyung Kim
ETRI
cyrano@etri.re.kr
Mo-Han Fong
Nortel Networks
mhfong@nortel.com
Yih-Shen Chen, Kelvin Chou, I-Kang yihshen.chen@mediatek.com
kelvin.chou@mediatek.com
Fu, Paul Cheng
ik.fu@mediatek.com
MediaTek Inc.
yb.chang@samsung.com
Youngbin Chang
Samsung Electronics
Re:
IEEE 802.16m-08/052:
Abstract
This contribution proposes support of error recovery for MAC management messages
Purpose
For review and adoption of proposed text in SDD
Notice
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Patent
Policy
MAC, MAC Management
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Error Recovery for MAC Management Messages
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IEEE C802.16m-09/0002
Yair Bourlas, Lei Wang, Erik Colban, Ken Stanwood
NextWave Wireless
Sean McBeath, Jin Lei
Huawei Technologies
Sung Kyung Kim
ETRI
Mo-Han Fong
Nortel Networks
Yih-Shen Chen, Kelvin Chou, I-Kang Fu, Paul Cheng
MediaTek Inc.
Youngbin Chang
Samsung Electronics
1 Introduction
Certain large MAC management messages require fragmentation, especially for UL
transmission for cell edge users. Without an error recovery mechanism which can handle
individual fragments, the entire message must be retransmitted after the message timer expires,
which reduces the efficiency of the system. In this contribution, we propose to extend the
functionality of the ARQ-HARQ interaction mechanism (see 10.2.3 in SDD) to management
messages.
2 Text Proposal
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10.11 MAC Management
To meet the latency requirements for aspects of network entry, handover, state transition and so on, 802.16m
supports the fast and reliable transmission of MAC management messages..
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To provide reliable transmission of MAC management messages, message timers for retransmission are defined
for all the unicast MAC management messages. The message timers may be different for different MAC
management messages. If HARQ is applied during the transmission of a MAC management message and if the
HARQ process is terminated with an unsuccessful outcome before the expiration of the message timer, the
MAC message management entity in the transmitter may initiate retransmission of the complete message or the
message fragment of the failed HARQ burst.
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