Patent ID: 9379863
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H03M,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for transmitting packets comprising encoded bits, the method comprising: selecting one of either convolutional encoding or low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoding based on a high-throughput signaling (HT-SIG) field of a packet; configuring a forward-error correction (FEC) coding field of the HT-SIG field of the packet to indicate whether the packet is encoded with the LDPC encoding or the convolutional encoding; encoding payload data for the packet in accordance with the selected encoding; configuring the packet to be of variable-length in high-throughput (HT) format to include at least the HT-SIG field and a data field, the data field to include the encoded payload data; and transmitting the packet in accordance with an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) format.