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Relay Technical Recommendations
TR016-1.0.0
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may be lost over the air. To achieve this, the network server MAY use one of the following 348
techniques: 349
1. Either use a more conservative level than the effective downlink transmission frequency. 350
For example, if the network server expects 1 downlink frame every 8 uplink frames, it might 351
set SmartEnableLevel to 1 (encoding a value of 16) instead of 0 (encoding a value 352
of 8) to leave margin for downlink packet loss. 353
2. Or use Confirmed-Data-Downlink frame type to ensure reliable downlink delivery. 354
