Wireless device and method of short MAC frame indication

摘要

Embodiments of a wireless communication device and method for short frame indication in an IEEE 802.11ah network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a reserved bit in a service field is used to indicate whether a frame is using a short MAC header or a regular MAC header.

主权项

1. A method performed by a wireless communication device, the method comprising:
generating a media access control (MAC) header; and providing an indication the MAC header is in a short header format; wherein generating the MAC header includes
generating a frame control field, an address field and a sequence control field, andrefraining from including at least one of a Duration/ID field, Quality of Signal Control (QoS) field, or high throughput (HT) Control field; wherein providing an indication includes providing the indication the MAC header is in a short header format using a service field of a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) header to provide the indication the MAC header is in the short header format; wherein the service field comprises sixteen bits in which bits zero through six (B0-B6) are used for scrambler initialization and bits eight through fifteen (B8-B15) are used for a cyclic-redundancy-check (CRC), and wherein bit seven (B7) is a reserved bit to indicate whether the frame is using the short header format or a regular header format.