Patent ID: 8144732

Claim:
A method for boosting the downlink transmission rate to a mobile station by a media access control (MAC) unit thereof, comprising the steps of: predicting a total number of acknowledgement (ACK) packets that are going to be generated, wherein the step of the predicting the total number of the ACK packets is determined according to a plurality of historical ACK packets generated during a plurality of historical time frames, each of the historical time frames is given a different weighted value which is multiplied by the number of the historical ACK packets therein to obtain a multiplication value, and the multiplication values of the historical time frames are summed to obtain the predicted total number of the ACK packets that are going to be generated; predicting timing for when the ACK packets will be generated; determining a bandwidth amount according to the predicted total number of the ACK packets, issuing a bandwidth amount request with the determined bandwidth amount from the mobile station to a base station for the ACK packets to be generated and transmitted to the base station before generation of the ACK packets; generating the ACK packets; and instructing an RF module to transmit the ACK packets to the base station following a notification from the base station indicating that the requested bandwidth amount has been allocated.