Method, apparatus, and system for medium access control
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- a first layer for;
receiving one or more flows, each flow comprising one or more packets; and
generating one or more Medium Access Control (MAC) layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) based on the one or more packets from the one or more flows; and
a second layer for;
generating one or more MAC frames based on the one or more MAC layer PDUs, each MAC frame comprising;
a control channel for transmitting one or more medium allocations;
one or more traffic segments, each for transmitting one or more MAC layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) in accordance with a medium allocation.
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Abstract
Embodiments addressing MAC processing for efficient use of high throughput systems are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus comprises a first layer for receiving one or more packets from one or more data flows and for generating one or more first layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) from the one or more packets. In another aspect, a second layer is deployed for generating one or more MAC frames based on the one or more MAC layer PDUs. In another aspect, a MAC frame is deployed for transmitting one or more MAC layer PDUs. The MAC frame may comprise a control channel for transmitting one or more allocations. The MAC frame may comprise one or more traffic segments in accordance with allocations.
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37 Claims
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a first layer for;
receiving one or more flows, each flow comprising one or more packets; and
generating one or more Medium Access Control (MAC) layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) based on the one or more packets from the one or more flows; and
a second layer for;
generating one or more MAC frames based on the one or more MAC layer PDUs, each MAC frame comprising;
a control channel for transmitting one or more medium allocations;
one or more traffic segments, each for transmitting one or more MAC layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) in accordance with a medium allocation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method comprising:
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receiving one or more flows at a first layer, each flow comprising one or more packets;
generating one or more Medium Access Control (MAC) layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) based on the one or more packets from the one or more flows; and
forming a MAC frame comprising;
a control channel for transmitting one or more medium allocations;
one or more traffic segments, each for transmitting one or more MAC layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) in accordance with a medium allocation;
- View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. An apparatus comprising:
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means for receiving one or more flows, each flow comprising one or more packets and generating one or more MAC layer PDUs from one or more packets from the one or more flows; and
means for generating a MAC frame based on one or more MAC layer PDUs, the MAC frame comprising;
a control channel for transmitting one or more medium allocations; and
one or more traffic segments, each for transmitting one or more MAC layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) in accordance with a medium allocation; and
- View Dependent Claims (35, 36)
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37. Computer readable media operable to perform the following steps:
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receiving one or more flows at a first layer, each flow comprising one or more packets;
generating one or more Medium Access Control (MAC) layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) based on the one or more packets from the one or more flows; and
forming a MAC frame comprising;
a control channel for transmitting one or more medium allocations;
one or more traffic segments, each for transmitting one or more MAC layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) in accordance with a medium allocation;
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