Patent ID: 8442065

Claim:
A transmitting method for packet distribution in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining, by a multi-Frequency Allocation (FA) controller, a number of Frequency Allocations (FAs) through multi-FA capability negotiation; distributing, by a packet distributor, packets of at least one Service Flow (SF), received from a superordinate layer, to the multiple FAs for a packet transmission, according to one of a service flow allocation, packet allocation and packet splitting; and transmitting, by a Media Access Control (MAC) processor, the packets distributed through the multiple FAs, wherein, when the packets of the at least of one SF are distributed to the multiple FAs, at least one of a minimum reserved traffic rate, a maximum sustained traffic rate, an unsolicited grant interval, and a Service Data Unit (SDU) size are modified according to the number of the FAs, wherein the minimum reserved traffic rate, the maximum sustained traffic rate, the unsolicited grant interval, and the SDU size are determined by a type of service class, wherein, when packets are distributed using Packet Allocating (PA) in which one SF is mapped to the multiple FAs without fragmenting the packets, the minimum reserved traffic rate decreases in proportion to the number of the connected multiple FAs and the unsolicited grant interval increases in proportion to the number of the connected multiple FAs, wherein, the SDU size and the minimum reserved traffic rate decrease in proportion to the number of connected multiple FAs, when packets are distributed using Packet Spitting (PS) in which the packets are fragmented and the fragmented packets are mapped to the connected multiple FAs.