Techniques for dropping packets at congested network elements for no drop traffic are described. A network element in communication with a congested network element initiates a copy packet queue and stores a copy of each transmitted no-drop packet sent to the congested element. When the network element receives an indication that the congested element has dropped a no-drop packet, the network element begins retransmission of the dropped packets to the congested element from the copy packet queue, thus providing a lossless network while allowing for dropped packets.

Systems and methods for improving the performance and stability of bonding radios are provided. One method includes receiving a packet from a client device. Next, the method includes determining whether the received packet is an expected next packet and transmitting the received packet to a next destination if the received packet is the expected next packet. In an event the received packet is not the expected next packet, transmitting the received packet to a queue, setting a timer to wait for the expected next packet, and transmitting a message to the sender of the received packet requesting that the expected next packet be sent.

Systems and methods for improving the performance and stability of bonding radios are provided. One method includes receiving a packet from a client device. Next, the method includes determining whether the received packet is an expected next packet and transmitting the received packet to a next destination if the received packet is the expected next packet. In an event the received packet is not the expected next packet, transmitting the received packet to a queue, setting a timer to wait for the expected next packet, and transmitting a message to the sender of the received packet requesting that the expected next packet be sent.

A base station device includes: a storage that stores a group indicating unit data subject to retransmission out of predetermined number of unit data included in transmission data to be transmitted to a terminal device, and identification information to identify the group, in an associated manner; a receiver that receives, from the terminal device, identification information corresponding to transmission data transmitted to the terminal device; a communication controller that refers to the storage based on the received identification information, and that determines retransmission of unit data included in a group corresponding to the received identification information out of the transmission data; and a transmitter that transmits unit data included in the group determined to be retransmitted by the communication controller, to the terminal device.

A network element processes a data flow in accordance with a communications protocol in which respective incremental sequence numbers are assigned to segments of the data flow. The segments are sent from the network element to the other network element in order of the sequence numbers, and respective acknowledgements are received from the other network element. The acknowledgements may include the highest sequence number of the segments of the flow that were received in the other network element. After transmitting the last segment of the data flow an additional segment is sent to the other network element. When it is determined from an acknowledgement of the additional segment that the last segment of the data flow was not received by the other network element, the last segment is retransmitted.

A technique for transferring data (602) that is representable by N data symbols (606) of a finite field is described. The size of the field is an integer power of a Mersenne prime. As to a method aspect of the technique, a polynomial over the finite field is determined based on the N data symbols (606). More than N code symbols (610) of the finite field are used for transmitting or initiating to transmit the data (602). At least one of the code symbols (610) corresponds to an evaluation of the polynomial at a non-primitive element of the finite field.

In one embodiment, a device may transmit, via a network to an application, a series of sensor measurements captured by the device, each sensor measurement having an associated timestamp based on a clock of the device. The device may receive, from the application, an indication that at least a portion of the series of sensor measurement were not received by the application. The device may determine, for those sensor measurements not received by the application, timestamp differences between their timestamps and a current time of the clock of the apparatus, after receiving the indication. The device may resend the portion of the series of sensor measurements to the application and their timestamp differences.

In one embodiment, a device may transmit, via a network to an application, a series of sensor measurements captured by the device, each sensor measurement having an associated timestamp based on a clock of the device. The device may receive, from the application, an indication that at least a portion of the series of sensor measurement were not received by the application. The device may determine, for those sensor measurements not received by the application, timestamp differences between their timestamps and a current time of the clock of the apparatus, after receiving the indication. The device may resend the portion of the series of sensor measurements to the application and their timestamp differences.

The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for transmitting HARQ feedback information, base stations and terminals. The method includes: determining downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) configuration information, where the downlink HARQ configuration information informs at least two preset terminals about transmission configuration information of target downlink control signaling; sending the downlink HARQ configuration information to each of the preset terminals; loading the downlink HARQ feedback information for each of the preset terminals into the target downlink control signaling according to the downlink HARQ configuration information; and sending the target downlink control signaling to each of the preset terminals. In the present disclosure, the base station transmits HARQ feedback information with respect to uplink data transmission from a plurality of terminals through the target downlink control signaling, which saves system signaling overhead.

An optical rotary joint communication apparatus for communicating between a rotor and a stator. Optical sources and detectors are arranged on both the rotor and the stator to provide bi-directional communication. As the rotor rotates, downlink detectors on the rotor sequentially communicate via line-of-sight optical channels with corresponding downlink receivers on the stator. Each downlink receiver is provided a curved mirror reflecting the downlink beam onto the downlink receiver when the rotation angle of the rotor is within a corresponding angle interval. When the rotation angle moves past the angle interval, the downlink beams transition to another mirror and another downlink receiver. The downlink beams are directed predominantly tangential to the rotor circumference. Adjacent downlink transmitters transmit redundant data, and transitions between downlink receivers are staggered for adjacent downlink transmitters to occur at non-overlapping rotation angles in order to prevent loss of data during transitions.