Patent ID: 8817781

Claim:
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising: a processor configured to produce medium access control (MAC) for dedicated channel (MAC-d) protocol data units (PDUs) for each of a plurality of dedicated channels; the processor further configured to segment, for a logical channel, at least one MAC-d PDU of the MAC-d PDUs on a condition that the at least one MAC-d PDU is too large to fit into a payload size; the processor further configured to produce a first MAC PDU by concatenating a segment of the at least one MAC-d PDU with another at least one MAC-d PDU or segment of the another at least one MAC-d PDU; wherein the first MAC PDU includes a transmission sequence number (TSN) and a segmentation description field; wherein a potential value of the segmentation description field indicates that the first MAC PDU ends in a segment of the at least one MAC-d PDU and a remaining segment of the at least one MAC-d PDU is to be concatenated in another first MAC PDU; and the processor further configured to multiplex a plurality of first MAC PDUs into a second MAC PDU for transmission.