摘要 |
A communication device configured to identify a message that it has received successfully from another communication device and transmit an acknowledgement of the message that ambiguously identifies the message as being a message that was successfully received by the communication device. The communication device may be configured to form the acknowledgement using a bit-field that consists of a first number of set bits and a second number of non-set bits. The communication device may compress the bit-field for transmission representing the bit-field by an identifier that identifies its arrangement of the first number of set bits and the second number of non-set bits uniquely amongst the number of possible arrangements of those bits within the bit-field. |