TECHNIQUES FOR RETRANSMITTING PHYSICAL LAYER PACKETS AFTER INACTIVITY ON A SECONDARY COMPONENT CARRIER

Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes identifying a decoding status of one or more physical layer packets before inactivity on a secondary component carrier (SCC) in a shared radio frequency spectrum band; initiating an SCC reordering timer, wherein the SCC reordering timer is initiated when the decoding status of the one or more physical layer packets is identified as unsuccessful; and triggering a transmission, to a base station, of a radio link control (RLC) status report upon expiration of the SCC reordering timer. The RLC status report is transmitted before expiration of a RLC reordering timer initiated when the decoding status of the one or more physical layer packets is identified as unsuccessful. In some examples, the method may include resetting the SCC reordering timer when one or more additional physical layer packets are received on the SCC.