Receiving and processing protocol data units
AssigneeFujitsu Semiconductor Limited
InventorsKartik Raju, Mehmet Un
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Abstract
A method for processing one or more bursts including receiving at least a portion of a first burst comprising one or more protocol data units. The method includes receiving a sequence number for the first burst. The method includes writing the sequence number and the first burst to a physical-layer queue, such that the first burst is concatenated to the sequence number in the physical-layer queue. The sequence number may identify the first burst from one or more second bursts written to the physical-layer queue preceding or following the first burst.
Claims12
A method for processing one or more bursts, comprising:
- receiving at least a portion of a first protocol data unit (PDU) into a physical-layer queue, the PDU comprising a header;
- communicating the header of the PDU to a media access control (MAC) processor;
- generating, at the MAC processor, a descriptor for the PDU, the descriptor comprising one or more fields, the descriptor comprising instructions regarding how to process the PDU;
- communicating the descriptor to a reception (RX) module logically residing between a physical layer controller (PHY) and the MAC processor;
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- processing, at the RX module, the PDU according to the instructions of the descriptor.
An apparatus for processing one or more bursts, comprising:
- a physical-layer queue configured to receive at least a portion of a first protocol data unit (PDU), the PDU comprising a header;
- a media access control (MAC) processor configured to receive the header of the PDU and generate a descriptor for the PDU, the descriptor comprising one or more fields, the descriptor comprising instructions regarding how to process the PDU;
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- a reception (RX) module configured to receive the descriptor module and process the PDU according to the instructions of the descriptor, the RX module logically residing between a physical layer controller (PHY) and the MAC processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.