Control Information for a Wirelessly-Transmitted Data Stream

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by a computing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving one or more first frames of wireless data that include:
• first data, first control information, and a first plurality of packets, wherein said first data includes one or more first physical layer parameters;
• determining a physical layer structure of the first control information based on the first data;
• decoding the first control information based on the determined structure of the first control information;
• decoding the first plurality of packets based on the first control information;
• receiving one or more second frames of wireless data that include:
• second data, second control information, and a second plurality of packets, wherein said second data includes one or more second physical layer parameters having one or more different values than said one or more first physical layer parameters;
• determining a physical layer structure of the second control information based on the second data, wherein the physical layer structure of the second control information is different than a physical layer structure of the first control information;
• decoding the second control information based on the determined structure of the second control information;
• and
• decoding the second plurality of packets based on the second control information.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a computing device, one or more first frames of wireless data that include:
• first data, first control information, and a first plurality of packets, wherein said first data includes one or more first physical layer parameters;
• determining, by the computing device, a physical layer structure of the first control information based on the first data;
• decoding, by the computing device, the first control information based on the determined structure of the first control information;
• decoding, by the computing device, the first plurality of packets based on the first control information;
• receiving, by the computing device, one or more second frames of wireless data that include:
• second data, second control information, and a second plurality of packets, wherein said second data includes one or more second physical layer parameters having one or more different values than said one or more first physical layer parameters;
• determining, by the computing device, a physical layer structure of the second control information based on the second data, wherein the physical layer structure of the second control information is different than a physical layer structure of the first control information;
• decoding, by the computing device, the second control information based on the determined structure of the second control information;
• and
• decoding, by the computing device, the second plurality of packets based on the second control information.