The present invention relates to a method for performing retransmissions by a transmission end in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: re-transmitting a data unit to a reception end; and increasing a retransmission counter associated with the data unit, when the retransmission counter associated with the data unit reaches to a max value, reporting a max retransmission indication to an upper layer and setting the retransmission counter associated with the data unit to zero.

The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for detecting a maximum transmission unit (MTU) value. The data sender forms a first detection packet according to a first preset rule based on its MTU value. The data sender sends the first detection packet to a data receiver. The data sender receives a second detection packet from the data receiver. The data sender determines an MTU value included in the second detection packet as an MTU value of data transmission between the data sender and the data receiver.

This application provides a communication method, wherein a user plane path between a terminal and a user plane gateway includes a first link and a second link, the first link is a link between the terminal and an access network device, and the second link is a link between the access network device and the user plane gateway. the method comprises: obtaining packet loss statuses of a service flow on the first link and the second link; determining a quantity of consecutive lost packets of the service flow on the user plane path based on the packet loss statuses of the service flow on the first link and the second link; and when the quantity of consecutive lost packets of the service flow on the user plane path reaches a first threshold, triggers enabling of a high-reliability transmission mechanism for the service flow.

This application provides a communication method, wherein a user plane path between a terminal and a user plane gateway includes a first link and a second link, the first link is a link between the terminal and an access network device, and the second link is a link between the access network device and the user plane gateway. the method comprises: obtaining packet loss statuses of a service flow on the first link and the second link; determining a quantity of consecutive lost packets of the service flow on the user plane path based on the packet loss statuses of the service flow on the first link and the second link; and when the quantity of consecutive lost packets of the service flow on the user plane path reaches a first threshold, triggers enabling of a high-reliability transmission mechanism for the service flow.

A computer-implemented method comprising: (i) defining a new ethertype to be used in communicating PIDs (process identification codes), with the new ethertype being assigned a new ethertype code; (ii) determining a selected abstraction layer from a plurality of abstraction layers to be used in communicating PIDs; and (iii) making a plurality of network communications among and between computers of a networked computers system, with each communication, with the making of each given communication including: (a) inserting the new ethertype code and a PID of a process causing the given communication to occur into a data structure, and (b) communicating the data structure between computers of the networked computers system at the selected abstraction layer.

A communication device, processing device or method constructs M RLC PDUs including M RLC SDUs, respectively, where M is larger than 1; submits, for a transmission opportunity, only L RLC PDUs for L RLC SDUs with lowest L SNs among the M RLC PDUs to a MAC layer, where L<M and the L RLC PDUs include a first RLC PDU having a poll to trigger status reporting at a receiving device; transmits the L RLC PDUs to the receiving device; constructs a second RLC PDU including a second RLC SDU having a highest SN among SNs of RLC SDUs submitted to the MAC layer, when the poll retransmission timer started upon submitting the first RLC PDU having the poll expires and no new RLC SDU or RLC SDU segment can be transmitted.

A communication device, processing device or method constructs M RLC PDUs including M RLC SDUs, respectively, where M is larger than 1; submits, for a transmission opportunity, only L RLC PDUs for L RLC SDUs with lowest L SNs among the M RLC PDUs to a MAC layer, where L<M and the L RLC PDUs include a first RLC PDU having a poll to trigger status reporting at a receiving device; transmits the L RLC PDUs to the receiving device; constructs a second RLC PDU including a second RLC SDU having a highest SN among SNs of RLC SDUs submitted to the MAC layer, when the poll retransmission timer started upon submitting the first RLC PDU having the poll expires and no new RLC SDU or RLC SDU segment can be transmitted.

This application provides a communication method, a network device, and a terminal. The communication method includes: obtaining, by a first network device, a first AMBR of a PDU session, where the first AMBR is an AMBR of a flow that is served by a second network device in the PDU session, the first network device is a master node serving a terminal, and the second network device is a secondary node serving the terminal; sending, by the first network device, first information to the second network device, where the first information includes the first AMBR, so that the second network device provides, based on the first AMBR, the PDU session service for the terminal. The communication method, the network device, and the terminal provided in this application help ensure a session-level aggregate maximum rate requirement in a dual connectivity scenario.

This application provides a communication method, a network device, and a terminal. The communication method includes: obtaining, by a first network device, a first AMBR of a PDU session, where the first AMBR is an AMBR of a flow that is served by a second network device in the PDU session, the first network device is a master node serving a terminal, and the second network device is a secondary node serving the terminal; sending, by the first network device, first information to the second network device, where the first information includes the first AMBR, so that the second network device provides, based on the first AMBR, the PDU session service for the terminal. The communication method, the network device, and the terminal provided in this application help ensure a session-level aggregate maximum rate requirement in a dual connectivity scenario.

A technique for communicating protocol data units, PDUs, in a radio communication from a transmitter (100) to a receiver (200) is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, one or more control messages indicative of Quality of Service, QoS, requirements for the radio communication are received. The QoS requirements include a control command for a reliability of the radio communication and a control command for a latency of the radio communication. A batch of redundant PDUs is transmitted from the transmitter (100) to the receiver (200). A number of the redundant PDUs per batch depends on the control command for the reliability and a temporal spread of the redundant PDUs per batch depends on the control command for the latency.