Patent ID: 8885661

Claim:
A method for performing wireless communication using Medium Access Control Protocol Data Units (MAC PDUs), the method comprising: at a communication device: identifying at least one characteristic of a service flow; selecting, from a plurality of MAC PDU headers, and based on the identified at least one characteristic, a MAC PDU header that implements a Service Data Unit (SDU) fragmentation scheme; encapsulating service flow data as SDU fragments into payloads of a plurality of MAC PDUs, wherein each MAC PDU of the plurality of MAC PDUs includes: an SDU fragment that stores a portion of the service flow data, and the selected MAC PDU header, wherein a packing format (PI) field of the selected MAC PDU header is assigned a value that represents a manner in which the SDU fragment spans the payload of the MAC PDU; and wirelessly transmitting the encapsulated service flow data using the plurality of MAC PDUs.