Method and a device for reporting the number of correctly decoded transport blocks in a wireless system

Abstract

A method and a device for reporting the number of correctly decoded transport blocks in a wireless system. The maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks within a reporting period is determined. Then the actual number of correctly decoded transport blocks is determined and cultivated into an indication thereof on the basis of the maximum number. The indication is sent to a network element capable of decoding it for analysis.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for a wireless system adapted to transfer data in radio packets over an interface, the method comprising:
 obtaining information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period, obtaining a number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, adapting an indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period into a transferable form on the basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, wherein the adapting comprises truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and sending the indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period over the interface.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks is determined on the basis of transport blocks in which a cyclic redundancy check is used. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks is determined on the basis of transport blocks associated with active transport channels. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein only a subset of all transport channels in a transport format combination set is taken into account. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks is determined on the basis of the maximum number of active transport channels in a transport format combination of a transport format combination set on a dedicated physical subchannel. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein at least one transport format combination for signalling is omitted from both the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period and the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein in obtaining the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period only the transport blocks in which a cyclic redundancy check is used are counted in, the counted in transport blocks considered as correctly decoded according to the cyclic redundancy check thereof. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein in obtaining the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period all the received transport blocks are considered as correctly decoded provided that there is no transport format combination in a transport format combination set comprising at least one active transport channel utilizing a cyclic redundancy check. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the non-linear reporting scale is higher for a range within the limited range where all blocks are sent and a low number of blocks are incorrectly decoded. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the system utilizes a flexible layer one in data transfer. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the non-linear reporting scale is higher for a range within the limited range where only a few correct blocks are correctly decoded. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the indication is sent in a nbr rcvd block parameter. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the reporting period is a slow associated control channel reporting period, and the slow associated control channel is the channel on which the indication is transferred. 
     
     
         14 . An apparatus operable in a system adapted to transfer data in packets over an interface, the apparatus comprising a processing unit and a memory comprising a computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processing unit, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
 obtain information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period;   obtain a number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period;   adapt an indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period into a transferable form on the basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, wherein the adapting comprises truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and   send the indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period over the interface.   
     
     
         15 . The apparatus of  claim 14 , wherein the non-linear reporting scale is higher for a range within the limited range where only a few correct blocks are correctly decoded. 
     
     
         16 . The apparatus of  claim 14 , adapted to determine the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks based on the maximum number of active transport channels in a transport format combination of a transport format combination set on a dedicated physical subchannel. 
     
     
         17 . The apparatus of  claim 14 , adapted to take into account only the transport blocks utilizing a cyclic redundancy check in the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period. 
     
     
         18 . The apparatus of  claim 14 , adapted to omit at least one transport format combination for signalling from both the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period and the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period. 
     
     
         19 . The apparatus of  claim 14 , adapted to consider the transport blocks as correctly decoded according to the cyclic redundancy check. 
     
     
         20 . The apparatus of  claim 14 , adapted to consider the received transport blocks as correctly decoded provided that there is no transport format combination in a transport format combination set including at least one active transport channel utilizing a cyclic redundancy check. 
     
     
         21 . The apparatus of  claim 14  that is a mobile terminal. 
     
     
         22 . The apparatus of  claim 14  that utilizes a flexible layer one in data reception. 
     
     
         23 . The apparatus of  claim 14  wherein the non-linear reporting scale is higher for a range within the limited range where all blocks are sent and a low number of blocks are incorrectly decoded. 
     
     
         24 . The apparatus of  claim 14  that utilizes a slow associated control channel to sent the indication. 
     
     
         25 . An apparatus operable in a system adapted to transfer data in packets over an interface, the apparatus comprising a processing unit and a memory comprising a computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processing unit, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
 obtain information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period, obtain a number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, adapt an indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period into a transferable form on the basis of the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, wherein the adapting comprises truncation of at least one bit of a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, and send the indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period over the interface.   
     
     
         26 . The apparatus of  claim 25  wherein the non-linear reporting scale is higher for a range within the limited range where only a few correct blocks are correctly decoded. 
     
     
         27 . The apparatus of  claim 25  wherein the non-linear reporting scale is higher for a range within the limited range where all blocks are sent and a low number of blocks are incorrectly decoded. 
     
     
         28 . The apparatus of  claim 25 , adapted to receive the indication on a slow associated control channel. 
     
     
         29 . A non-transitory medium tangibly encoded with a computer executable program configured to execute, when the computer executable program is run by a processor, a method for a system adapted to transfer data in packets over an interface with instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:
 obtaining information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period at the latest when the reporting period has expired,   obtaining a number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, adapting an indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks into a transferable form based on the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks, wherein the adapting comprises selecting a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period from a non-linear mapping table that maps the number of correctly decoded transport blocks to a limited range of numbers in a non-linear reporting scale of resolution for the binary representation with the reporting scale higher for selected numbers in the limited range, and   sending the indication over the interface.   
     
     
         30 . A method for a system adapted to transfer data in packets over an interface, the method comprising:
 obtaining information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period at the latest when the reporting period has expired,   obtaining a number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, adapting an indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks into a transferable form based on the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks, wherein the adapting comprises selecting a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period from a non-linear mapping table that maps the number of correctly decoded transport blocks to a limited range of numbers in a non-linear reporting scale of resolution for the binary representation with the reporting scale higher for selected numbers in the limited range, and   sending the indication over the interface.   
     
     
         31 . The method of  claim 30 , wherein the non-linear reporting scale is higher for a range within the limited range where all blocks are sent and a low number of blocks are incorrectly decoded. 
     
     
         32 . The method of  claim 30 , wherein the non-linear reporting scale is higher for a range within the limited range where only a few correct blocks are correctly decoded. 
     
     
         33 . A non-transitory medium tangibly encoded with a computer executable program configured to execute, when the computer executable program is run by a processor, a method for a system adapted to transfer data in packets over an interface with instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:
 obtaining information about a maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks during a reporting period at the latest when the reporting period has expired,   obtaining a number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period, adapting an indication about the number of correctly decoded transport blocks into a transferable form based on the obtained information about the maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks, wherein the adapting comprises selecting a binary representation of the number of correctly decoded transport blocks during the reporting period from a non-linear mapping table that maps the number of correctly decoded transport blocks to a limited range of numbers in a non-linear reporting scale of resolution for the binary representation with the reporting scale higher for selected numbers in the limited range, and   sending the indication over the interface.