Patent ID: 8406213

Claim:
A wireless communication system for providing random access communication, concomitantly using the request to send (RTS)/clear to send (CTS) method, comprising: a sending communication station, serving as an origin of data transmission, configured to transmit an RTS packet and to initiate the data transmission in response to reception of a CTS packet from a destination communication station, serving as a destination of the data transmission, wherein the sending communication station is configured to transmit and receive packets that each have a MAC header having at least two sub-headers multiplexed therein, the sub-headers selected from the group consisting of an RTS sub MAC header, a CTS sub MAC header, an ACK sub MAC header, and a DATA sub MAC header, each of the RTS sub MAC header, CTS sub MAC header, ACK sub MAC header, and DATA sub MAC header having a data flow attribute set therein.