Patent ID: 9019993
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a mesh wireless communication system comprising a plurality of mesh points that are wirelessly linked together such that a data packet sent by a station (STA) is received by an ingress mesh point (IMP) and forwarded to an egress mesh point (EMP) in order to provide a service by the mesh wireless communication system, a method for sending an acknowledgement (ACK) for the data packet to the IMP, comprising: generating a medium access control (MAC) frame for transmission of a data packet, the MAC frame including a field comprising an IMP address and an EMP address; forwarding the MAC frame to the EMP via zero or more intermediate mesh point; and sending an ACK for successful reception of the data packet to the IMP, wherein a frame control field of the MAC frame indicates that the MAC frame contains the IMP address and the EMP address.