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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2012
Zte Corporation, Shenzhen, CN;
Weimin Xing, Shenzhen, CN;
Kaiying Lv, Shenzhen, CN;
Kaibo Tian, Shenzhen, CN;
Nan Li, Shenzhen, CN;
Jing Jiang, Shenzhen, CN;
Bo Sun, Shenzhen, CN;
XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO. LTD., Xi'an, CN;
Abstract
Provided are methods and devices for transmitting a frame in a network. The method includes: setting, by a sending station, a media access control (MAC) frame header of a MAC frame, wherein the MAC frame header includes at least one bit for indicating whether the MAC frame header adopts an optimized MAC header format, the optimized MAC frame header format referring to a MAC frame format in which only necessary frame header information is reserved (S); sending, by the sending station, the MAC frame to a receiving station (S). The present disclosure not only ensures correct sending and receiving of a frame, but also effectively reduces the overhead of the frame header.