Patent ID: 7355976

Claim:
A method for determining the transmission and retransmission attempts that will be made for a frame that needs to be transmitted, comprising: assembling the frame at a transmit buffer; storing the frame at the transmit buffer; and determining a value of N based on the equation N=min (N+B, I+1âˆ’Q) for a new transmission attempt and N=Nâˆ’1 for a retransmission attempt to determine a maximum number of transmission and retransmission attempts that may be made to transmit or retransmit the frame, the equation recalculates a value of N, based on the previous value N, wherein: N, after the recalculation, specifies a maximum number of transmission and retransmission attempts that may be made for a frame in the head of a transmit queue; B specifies a number of transmit opportunities elapsed between the arrivals of two successive frames in the transmit queue; Q specifies a number of frames currently residing in the transmit queue; and I specifies a constant value equal to a maximum number of transmit opportunities for a frame.