Methods, communication devices, and computer program products for communicating information via a frame check sequence having an information block associated therewith

Abstract

Embodiments of methods, communication devices, communication systems, and computer program products may facilitate communication of information via a frame-check sequence that has an information block associated therewith. For example, one or more information blocks may be provided and respectively associated with one or more information block frame-check sequences. A message for transmission may be provided and a message frame-check sequence may be computed based on the message. One of the information blocks may also be selected for transmission along with the message. Rather than constructing a packet that includes both the selected information block and the message, however, the information block frame-check sequence that is associated with the selected information block is added to the message frame-check sequence to compute a transmit frame-check sequence. A packet comprising the message and the transmit frame-check sequence may then be transmitted. Once received, the packet may be divided by a generator polynomial to determine whether any remainder results. If the remainder is non-zero, then a determination may be made whether remainder corresponds to any of the one or more information block frame-check sequences. If the remainder does correspond to one of the information block frame-check sequences, then the information block associated with the information block frame-check sequence that corresponds to the remainder may be processed as received information.