Patent ID: 7844884

Claim:
A method for processing a burst by a receiver in a wireless communication system having the burst, which includes at least one Protocol Data Unit (PDU), the method comprising the steps of: checking if an N th PDU header included in a received burst has an error; if the N th PDU header has an error, estimating an address of the N+1 th PDU header; checking if an N+1 th PDU header has an error using the estimated address of the N+1 th PDU header; if the N+1 th PDU header does not have an error, decoding the N+1 th PDU header, and processing an N+1 th PDU by using information of the decoded N+1 th PDU header; and if the N+1 th PDU header has an error, detecting the N+1 th PDU header by checking if addresses after the N th PDU header have an error, wherein the address of the N+1 th PDU header is estimated by adding a length field value included in the N th PDU header to an address of the N th PDU header.