Extended block acknowledgement protocol
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsMaarten Menzo Wentink, Simone Merlin
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Abstract
A method for selecting a size of a block acknowledgment bitmap for a block acknowledgment (BA) frame to be sent from a first wireless device to a second wireless device includes determining a transmission rate of a number of data frames received from the second wireless device, selecting the size of the block acknowledgment bitmap based at least in part on the determined transmission rate, and transmitting the BA frame, embedded with the block acknowledgment bitmap of the selected size, to the second wireless device.
Claims30
A method for selecting a size of a block acknowledgment bitmap for a block acknowledgment (BA) frame to be sent from a first wireless device to a second wireless device, the method comprising:
- determining a transmission rate of a number of data frames received from the second wireless device;
- selecting the size of the block acknowledgment bitmap based, at least in part, on the determined transmission rate;
- and
- embedding the block acknowledgement bitmap into the BA frame to be transmitted to the second wireless device.
A wireless device, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the wireless device to:
- determine a transmission rate of a number of data frames received from another wireless device;
- select a size of a block acknowledgment bitmap based, at least in part, on the determined transmission rate;
- and
- embed the block acknowledgement bitmap into a block acknowledgment (BA) frame to be transmitted to the other wireless device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing program instructions that, when executed by a processor of a wireless device, causes the wireless device perform operations comprising:
- determining a transmission rate of a number of data frames received from another wireless device;
- selecting a size of a block acknowledgment bitmap based, at least in part, on the determined transmission rate;
- and
- embedding the block acknowledgement bitmap into a block acknowledgment (BA) frame to be transmitted to the other wireless device.
A wireless device, comprising:
- means for determining a transmission rate of a number of data frames received from another wireless device;
- means for selecting a size of a block acknowledgment bitmap based, at least in part, on the determined transmission rate;
- and
- means for embedding the block acknowledgement bitmap into a block acknowledgment (BA) frame to be transmitted to the other wireless device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.