CPC H04L 1/1812 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1657 (2013.01); H04L 1/1864 (2013.01); H04L 1/188 (2013.01); H04L 1/1896 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A method performed by a wireless device for managing transport block (TB) transmissions by the wireless device to a network node at periodic transmission occasions, the method comprising:
starting a retransmission timer for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process upon a first transport block (TB) transmission by the wireless device to the network node;
applying a HARQ policy for the HARQ process, the HARQ policy governing whether the wireless device is to retransmit the first TB or transmit a second TB where no HARQ feedback responsive to the first TB transmission is received from the network node before the retransmission timer expires; and
retransmitting the first TB or transmitting the second TB according to the HARQ policy at a next periodic transmission occasion for the HARQ process after the retransmission timer expires, wherein the HARQ process is one of a plurality of concurrent HARQ processes.
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