System and method of enhancing wifi real-time communications

A method for real-time communications system having a plurality of WiFi handsets and a wireless access point, the method comprising:

• generating, in a first handset of the plurality of WiFi handsets, a real-time communication request and transmitting the real-time communication request to the wireless access point;
• assigning, with the wireless access point, an active slot within a frame of a sequence of frames having a fixed duration, to the WiFi handset, wherein the frame includes a wakeup time and a sleep time;
• buffering, in the first WiFi handset of the plurality of WiFi handsets, a first voice packet and a subsequent second voice packet;
• transmitting, from the first WiFi handset to the wireless access point, a first payload packet that includes the first voice packet, the second voice packet, and a first frame check sequence packet that provides error coverage for the first payload packet;
• after transmitting the first payload packet, transmitting, from the first WiFi handset to the wireless access point, a second payload packet that includes the second voice packet and a second frame check sequence that provides error coverage for the second payload packet.