Apparatus, system, and method of out-of-order delivery of wireless communication frames
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsDave Cavalcanti, Dibakar Das, Laurent Cariou, Dmitry Akhmetov, Ganesh Venkatesan, Juan Fang
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Abstract
For example, a wireless communication station (STA) may be configured to determine whether a stream of frames is suitable for out-of-order delivery from a first Medium Access Control layer (MAC-layer) process to a second MAC-layer process, the second MAC-layer process is above the first MAC-layer process; and, based on a determination that the stream of frames is suitable for out-of-order delivery, to deliver to the second MAC-layer process one or more frames of the stream of frames according to an out-of-order delivery scheme.
Claims24
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to:
- determine whether a stream of frames is suitable for out-of-order delivery from a first Medium Access Control layer (MAC-layer) process to a second MAC-layer process, the second MAC-layer process is above the first MAC-layer process;
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- based on a determination that the stream of frames is suitable for out-of-order delivery, deliver to the second MAC-layer process one or more frames of the stream of frames according to an out-of-order delivery scheme by selectively delivering a frame from the first MAC-layer process to the second MAC-layer process based on a Serial Number (SN) of the frame, a SN threshold, and a lowest SN corresponding to a frame of the stream of frames, which has not yet been received at the first MAC-layer process;
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- a memory to store information processed by the processor.
A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to:
- determine whether a stream of frames is suitable for out-of-order delivery from a first Medium Access Control layer (MAC-layer) process to a second MAC-layer process, the second MAC-layer process is above the first MAC-layer process;
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- based on a determination that the stream of frames is suitable for out-of-order delivery, deliver to the second MAC-layer process one or more frames of the stream of frames according to an out-of-order delivery scheme, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the STA to selectively deliver a frame from the first MAC-layer process to the second MAC-layer process based on a Serial Number (SN) of the frame, a SN threshold, and a lowest SN corresponding to a frame of the stream of frames, which has not yet been received at the first MAC-layer process.
An apparatus comprising:
- means for determining at a wireless communication station (STA) whether a stream of frames is suitable for out-of-order delivery from a first Medium Access Control layer (MAC-layer) process to a second MAC-layer process, the second MAC-layer process is above the first MAC-layer process;
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- means for, based on a determination that the stream of frames is suitable for out-of-order delivery, delivering to the second MAC-layer process one or more frames of the stream of frames according to an out-of-order delivery scheme by selectively delivering a frame from the first MAC-layer process to the second MAC-layer process based on a Serial Number (SN) of the frame, a SN threshold, and a lowest SN corresponding to a frame of the stream of frames, which has not yet been received at the first MAC-layer process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.