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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2005
George D. Kondylis, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ling Su, Cupertino, CA (US);
Neal Nuckolls, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bruce E. Edwards, Belmont, MA (US);
Matthew J. Fischer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jason Trachewsky, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Stephen R. Palm, Irvine, CA (US);
George D. Kondylis, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ling Su, Cupertino, CA (US);
Neal Nuckolls, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bruce E. Edwards, Belmont, MA (US);
Matthew J. Fischer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jason Trachewsky, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Stephen R. Palm, Irvine, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for a bandwidth efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is provided, which may comprise communicating a request to transmit (RTS) signal to a receiving station to determine if a channel is available for transmission. A clear to send (CTS) acknowledgement signal may be received from the receiving station if the channel is available for transmission. A plurality of medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) fragments separated by a point coordination function (PCF) interframe space (PIFS) interval may be transmitted in response to the received CTS acknowledgement signal.