Method for the rapid acknowledgement of a frame

A method, for a long range wide-area communication network comprising at least one electronic device and an application server, for the acknowledgement of a frame sent by the electronic device and received by the application server, the method being executed by the electronic device, wherein said method causes the device to perform:

• sending a first frame to the application server, the first frame comprising data,
• receiving a second so-called acknowledgement frame from the application server, the acknowledgement frame comprising a second integrity code, the second frame received further comprising a field comprising a counter,
• determining a first integrity code according to the data in the first frame, the first integrity code being determined according to data of the first frame and the value of the counter received in the second frame,
• if the first integrity code determined by the electronic device and the second integrity code are equal, then validating the acknowledgement by the application server of the first frame sent by the electronic device.

An electronic device suitable for being connected to a long range wide-area communication network, the electronic device comprises circuitry causing the device to perform:

• sending a first frame to the application server, the first frame comprising data,
• receiving a second so-called acknowledgement frame from the application server, the acknowledgement frame comprising a second integrity code, the second frame received further comprising a field comprising a counter,
• determining a first integrity code according to the data in the first frame, the first integrity code being determined according to data of the first frame and the value of the counter received in the second frame,
• if the first integrity code determined by the electronic device and the second integrity code are equal, then validating the acknowledgement by the application server of the first frame sent by the electronic device.