Patent ID: 8325754

Claim:
A method comprising transmitting network data in a wireless network, wherein the method comprises: broadcasting data by a sender; requesting by the sender a data reception result report from each receiver; and receiving the data reception result report from said each receiver that was requested the data reception result report, wherein said data comprises transmission data which is network-coded, and wherein said requesting the data reception result report comprises requesting the reception result report using a management MAC frame and receiving a reception result report using a management MAC frame, wherein said broadcasting data comprises broadcasting the transmission data with broadcast control information, and the broadcast control information and the transmission data is comprised in a MAC frame, wherein the broadcast control information comprises at least one of: sequence order information of all data packets of the transmission data; block identification information; information on sequence within a block; information on a number of times data is transmitted; information on a number of times data is retransmitted; and network coding coefficient information, and wherein the broadcasting data comprises broadcasting the transmission data in a MAC frame with at least one of: sequence order information of all data packets of the transmission data; block identification information; information on sequence within a block; information on a number of times data is transmitted; information on a number of times data is retransmitted; and network coding coefficient information.