US 8,284,752 B2 · Method, apparatus, and system for medium access control

Abstract

Embodiments addressing MAC processing for efficient use of high throughput systems are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus comprises a first layer for receiving one or more packets from one or more data flows and for generating one or more first layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) from the one or more packets. In another aspect, a second layer is deployed for generating one or more MAC frames based on the one or more MAC layer PDUs. In another aspect, a MAC frame is deployed for transmitting one or more MAC layer PDUs. The MAC frame may comprise a control channel for transmitting one or more allocations. The MAC frame may comprise one or more traffic segments in accordance with allocations.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a first layer for:
receiving one or more flows, each flow comprising one or more packets;
and
generating one or more Medium Access Control (MAC) layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) based on the one or more packets from the one or more flows;
and
a second layer for:
generating one or more MAC frames with a variable size based on the one or more MAC layer PDUs, each MAC frame comprising:
a control channel for transmitting one or more medium allocations;
wherein said control channel comprises a channel segment having a variable length:
one or more traffic segments, each for transmitting one or more MAC layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) in accordance with a medium allocation.

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Facts

Application

10/964,332Filed 13 Oct 2004 · us provisional application

Priority

15 Oct 2003

Published

US 2005/0135403 A123 Jun 2005

Granted

9 Oct 2012

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

H04L 69/324
Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions: in the data link layer [OSI layer 2], e.g. HDLC
H04L 69/325
Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions: in the network layer [OSI layer 3], e.g. X.25
Y02D 30/50
Reducing energy consumption in communication networks: in wire-line communication networks, e.g. low power modes or reduced link rate
H04L
Digital communication

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Method, apparatus, and system for medium access control

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