Patent ID: 7822005

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a receiving station, a first plurality of transmitting frames, each of the first plurality of transmitting frames including: a header segment encoded using a fixed set of header encoding parameters; and a payload segment encoded using a first set of a variable set of payload encoding parameters; decoding the header segments of the first plurality of transmitting frames in accordance with the fixed set of header encoding parameters; decoding the payload segments of the first plurality of transmitting frames in accordance with the first set of the variable set of payload encoding parameters; measuring and tracking performance of the decoding of the payload segments of the first plurality of transmitting frames, the measuring and tracking being based on errors detected during the decoding of the payload segments of the first plurality of transmitting frames; determining network performance improvement characteristics based on the measuring and tracking; and providing, from the receiving station to a transmitting station of the transmitting frames, an indication of a request to change the first set of the variable set payload encoding parameters to a second set of the variable set of payload encoding parameters based on the network performance improvement characteristics.