Patent ID: 8837420

Claim:
A method of receiving an aggregation of medium access control service data units (MSDUs) in a single medium access control (MAC) frame sent using wireless transmission, comprising: operating a device comprising host logic that communicates using a medium access control (MAC) sublayer, a physical (PHY) layer and an antenna wherein said antenna is coupled to said PHY layer and said MAC sublayer is coupled to said host logic and said PHY layer; receiving on said device said aggregation of MSDUs in said single MAC frame wherein said single MAC frame further comprises: (i) a plurality of frame subbodies each comprising a MAC service data unit (MSDU) field, (ii) a frame subbody length field for each of said MSDU fields wherein each of said frame subbody length fields containing the length of a respective one of said MSDU fields, (iii) a single frame check sequence field for said single MAC frame wherein no MSDU in said aggregation has an additional frame check sequence field; (iv) a single MAC header for said single MAC frame wherein no MSDU in said aggregation has an additional MAC header; and effectuating wireless communication by said host logic upon said device receiving said aggregation of MSDUs.