Patent ID: 7362735

Claim:
A system for transmitting data comprising: a plurality of subscriber stations; and a base station operable to transmit a radio signal to said subscriber stations, the signal including frames each having a same fixed duration and comprising at least one-data block, each data block including a header and a payload portion having a length; wherein said header includes only information required to recover said payload portion, each subscriber station intermittently reports its reception quality to said base station, and said base station is arranged and configured to package each data block individually for transmission to a subscriber station by employing a combination of forward error correction coding, modulation, and traffic symbol repetition rate that is, for the payload portion of each data block intended for said subscriber station, a data rate efficient combination as determined according to a reception quality reported by said intended recipient subscriber station and, for the header of said data block, as determined in accordance with an intention that said header be receivable by all subscriber stations that have at least a predetermined minimum reception quality.