Patent ID: 9059916
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for generating an aggregation packet in a communication system, the apparatus comprising: a buffer manager configured to store data packets; and an aggregation module configured to receive the data packets from the buffer manager, determine at least two of the received data packets comprising a same destination address and identical quality of service (QoS) information as unicast data packets, determine at least two of the received data packets comprising different destination addresses and identical QoS information as multicast data packets, aggregate the unicast data packets, separately from the multicast data packets, to form a single unicast aggregation packet, and aggregate the multicast data packets, separately from the unicast data packets, to form a single multicast aggregation packet, wherein each of the unicast and multicast aggregation packets comprises at least two data sections and a header comprising a destination address, wherein the unicast aggregation packet comprises the header comprising the destination address that is identical to the destination address included in a header of each of the unicast data packets, and wherein the multicast aggregation packet comprises the header comprising destination addresses that are identical to the destination addresses included in headers of the multicast data packets and information of a number of the multicast data packets included in the multicast aggregation packet.