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Medium access control layer that encapsulates data from a plurality of received data units into a plurality of independently transmittable blocks

  • US 8,654,635 B2
  • Filed: 02/11/2011
  • Issued: 02/18/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating in a network in which a plurality of stations communicate over a powerline communications medium, comprisingproviding a physical layer for handling physical communication over the powerline communications medium;

  • providing a high level layer that receives data from a station and supplies high level data units for transmission over the powerline communications medium;

    providing a MAC layer that receives the high level data units from the high level layer and supplies low level data units to the physical layer;

    at the MAC layer, encapsulating content from a plurality of the high level data units into a stream of sub-frames;

    dividing the encapsulated content into a plurality of pieces with each piece capable of being independently retransmitted; and

    supplying low level data units containing the plurality of pieces.

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