Patent ID: 7359972

Claim:
A method of communicating control information and data information in a transmission frame comprising: dividing a transmission frame into a plurality of slots; designating at least one of said plurality of slots as at least one dynamically allocatable control slot; and designating at least one of said plurality of slots as at least one dynamically allocatable data slot for communicating an IP flow comprising one or more packets over a shared wireless communication medium; wherein said at least one dynamically allocatable control slot includes information about a number of one or more packets in a second IP flow and at least one end user quality of service (QoS) requirement of said second IP flow; wherein said at least one dynamically allocatable control slot comprises a dynamically allocatable number of reservation request contention slots for receiving reservation requests for available dynamically allocatable data slots of said shared wireless communication medium; and wherein said dynamically allocatable number of reservation request contention slots is increased or decreased dynamically according to a frequency of detected collisions between said reservation requests.