Patent ID: 7817642
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for aggregating Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) Medium Access Control (MAC) frames, the method comprising: estimating by an aggregation module an amount of user traffic that is expected to be received within a certain period of time; calculating by the by an aggregation module a required bandwidth; sending, by an aggregation module's PHY interface, a Multiframe Reservation Request (MRR), requesting a transmission timeslot matching the bandwidth calculation, in response to the expected rate of received user traffic; receiving, by an aggregation module's PHY interface, a grant in response to the MRR; accepting, by an aggregation module's MAC interface, a plurality of MoCA MAC frames; assembling by an aggregation module the plurality of MoCA MAC frames in a physical layer (PHY) burst packet; and transmitting by a PHY transmitter the PHY burst packet in the granted time slot.