Medium access dynamic congestion control mechanism for wireless data

A method of dynamically controlling congestion in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of:

• (a) the medium access control layer detecting congestion based upon a level of stored frames in said medium access control queue exceeding a predetermined threshold;
• (b) the medium access control layer communicating a control message with the data link layer indicating a congested state;
• (c) in said congested state, the data link layer placing frames received from a higher layer into a data link layer queue and suspending frame transmission to the medium access control layer;
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• (d) the medium access control layer detecting no congestion based upon a level of stored frames in said medium access control queue falling below a predetermined threshold;
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• (e) upon receipt of a control message indicating an uncongested state from the medium access control layer, the data link layer sending frames to the medium access control layer.