Packet concatenation in wireless networks
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsPartho P. Mishra, Sandesh Goel, Vincent K. Jones, Alireza Raissinia
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Abstract
A wireless network includes a transmitting device and a plurality of receiving devices. The transmitting device is configured to receive a plurality of data packets, including a first data packet and a second data packet, prepare a preamble, prepare a signal field for each of the plurality of data packets, including a first signal field based on the first data packet and a second signal field based on the second data packet, and broadcast the preamble, the first signal field, the first data packet, the second signal field, and the second data packet as a concatenated packet.
Claims37
A transmitting device in a wireless network, wherein the transmitting device is configured to:
- receive at least a first data packet and a second data packet;
- prepare a preamble;
- prepare at least a first signal field for the first data packet and a second signal field for the second data packet;
- and
- transmit at least the preamble, the first signal field, the first data packet, the second signal field, and the second data packet as a concatenated packet to a receiving device;
- wherein the first signal field comprises a first continuation field and the second signal field comprises a second continuation field.
A wireless communication system, comprising:
- means for transmitting a concatenated packet across a network, the concatenated packet comprising a preamble, a plurality of data packets and a plurality of signal fields corresponding to the plurality of data packets;
- and
- means for receiving the concatenated packet;
- wherein the plurality of signal fields comprises a plurality of continuation fields.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, at a transmitting device, at least a first data packet and a second data packet;
- concatenating the first data packet, a first signal field, a second signal field and the second data packet to a concatenated packet;
- appending a preamble to the concatenated packet;
- and
- transmitting the concatenated packet across a wireless network to a receiving device;
- wherein the first signal field comprises a first continuation field and the second signal field comprises a second continuation field.
A computer readable medium having stored there on processor executable instructions that cause a computer to perform a process, the process comprising:
- receiving at least a first data packet and a second data packet at a transmitting device;
- preparing a preamble and at least a first signal field for the first data packet and a second signal field for the second data packet;
- and
- transmitting at least the preamble, the first data packet, the first signal field, the second signal field, and the second data packet as a concatenated packet across a wireless network to a receiving device;
- wherein the first signal field comprises a first continuation field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.