METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A COMMON ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CHANNEL

摘要

An approach is provided for sharing a common acknowledgement channel. A coding and modulation scheme is selected, wherein the coding and modulation scheme utilizes a plurality of sub-carriers associated with a common acknowledgement channel serving a plurality of stations. A plurality of error control-enabled connections is mapped to the common acknowledgement channel by allocating a portion of the sub-carriers to one of the connections and another portion of the sub-carriers to another one of the connections.