Patent ID: 8391351
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising: a frame aggregation unit configured to generate an aggregated frame including a plurality of frames and having a frame length; a transmission unit configured to transmit the aggregated frame at one transmission rate of a plurality of transmission rates; a memory to store, for each of the transmission rates, a threshold frame length defining a boundary between a first frame length range and a second frame length range, the threshold frame length being set and defining the boundary such that for a predetermined threshold throughput increase rate, a selection unit configured to select, by comparing the threshold frame length at the transmission rate with the frame length, at least one of (a) another transmission rate of the transmission rates and (b) a new frame length of the aggregated frame; a control unit configured to set the transmission rate to the selected another transmission rate if the another transmission rate is selected, and to set the frame length to the new frame length if the new frame length is selected.