Patent ID: 8913635

Claim:
A method for transmitting information over a home network using two dissimilar channels, comprising: determining that a node has an aggregated packet data unit (A-PDU) to be transmitted, the A-PDU having M bytes; calculating a ratio of the payload that can be carried by a first channel with respect to a second channel based on: how many bits per OFDM symbol are used for the first channel and how many bits per OFDM symbol are used for the second channel; maximum LDPC codeword payload sizes for each channel; and maximum number of payload bits per OFDM symbol for each channel; and dividing the M bytes between the first and second channel based on the calculated ratio; determining the sum of any bonded channel frame splitting overhead and the M bytes and multiplying the sum by the calculated ratio to determine the number of bytes to be transmitted on the first each channel; and subtracting a header and if the difference after subtracting the header is not evenly divisible by 4, then adding as many bytes as needed to increase the total number of bytes to be transmitted on the first channel to a number that is evenly divisible by 4, but not exceeding M.