METHOD AMD APPARATUS TO REDUCE SYSTEM OVERHEAD

摘要

System throughput is improved by decreasing the system overhead by reducing the size of control packets and data packet headers. A connection identifier (CID) is divided into a CID part 1 carried on a MAP IE and a CID part 2 carried on the generic MAC-PDU headers of one or more MAC PDUs. Versions of RCID-IE( ) in MAP messages may used to represent CID part 1. The generic MAX PDU headers (GMH) may vary according to the length of CID part 1, and multiple GMHs in a PHY burst may have different CID parts 2. In addition, the type header field of the GMH may be shortened or removed. Alternatively, a modified GMH may have an extended type sub-header field. In addition, the GMH may use a shorter connection index or a connection index mask instead of a CID.