Patent ID: 9565594
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of wireless communication comprising: establishing a virtual communication link comprising a first physical link and a second physical link different from the first physical link, the establishing comprising communicating at least one vendor specific information element (IE) in an independent action frame, wherein the at least one vendor specific IE comprises at least one of a link aggregation request parameter or a link aggregation response parameter, wherein the link aggregation request parameter comprises at least one from the group consisting of a number of auxiliary links, a virtual sequence number starting sequence number, a buffer size, a requesting device's MAC address of at least one of the first physical link or the second physical link, a channel number of the at least one of the first physical link or the second physical link, a bandwidth of the at least one of the first physical link or the second physical link, and a number of chains of the at least one of the first physical link or the second physical link, and wherein the link aggregation response parameter comprises at least one from the group consisting of a plurality of result codes, a receiver reordering buffer size, a responding device's MAC address of the at least one of the first physical link or the second physical link, a bandwidth supported by the responding device, and a number of chains in the at least one of the first physical link or the second physical link supported by the responding device; attaching a virtual sequence number to a data packet for each data packet in a virtual packet queue for the virtual communication link; for each data packet in the virtual packet queue: receiving, at the virtual packet queue, the data packet from the one of the first physical link interface or the second physical link interface based on a transmission failure for the data packet and re-sending the data packet after the data packet is received from the one of the first physical link interface or the second physical link interface via the other of the first physical link interface or the second physical link interface according to the attached virtual sequence number of the data packet.