Patent ID: 8665843
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method to communicate a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) in an aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU), comprising: assembling the A-MPDU using a wireless communication unit wherein the A-MPDU comprises no more than one non-zero length MPDU, wherein the non-zero length MPDU is a quality of service data MPDU with an acknowledgement policy set to normal acknowledgement, the non-zero length MPDU preceded by an MPDU delimiter, wherein the MPDU delimiter comprises an end of frame (EOF) field and a MPDU length field indicating an MPDU length, the MPDU length field preceded by the EOF field; setting an EOF bit in the EOF field to indicate only the no more than one MPDU has a non-zero length; and transmitting the A-MPDU.