Patent ID: 11924818
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for wireless communication by a wireless communication device, the method comprising:
generating, by a medium access control (MAC) layer of the wireless communication device, a plurality of MAC protocol data units (MPDUs), each MPDU including a respective plurality of information bits;
performing, by the MAC layer, an amplitude-shaping encoding operation on the pluralities of information bits of the plurality of MPDUs that generates at least a portion of an information block including encoded bits generated by the amplitude-shaping encoding operation, the amplitude-shaping encoding operation having an intrinsically-variable coding rate;
determining, by the MAC layer, a length of the information block after performing the amplitude-shaping encoding operation;
adding, by the MAC layer, padding bits to the information block in accordance with the determined length;
signaling, by the MAC layer, a resultant length of the information block after the addition of the padding bits to a physical (PHY) layer of the wireless communication device; and
transmitting, by the PHY layer, a wireless packet to at least one receiving device, the packet conveying the pluralities of encoded bits and including an indication of a length of the packet, the length of the packet being in accordance with the resultant length of the information block.