APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR GENERATING PACKET ACKNOWLEDGMENT REPLIES DURING OPERATION OF A PACKET COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating communication of a packet acknowledgment in a packet communication system. Detectors detect the data rate at which data packets are communicated to a receiving station and whether the data packets are successfully delivered to the receiving station. A packet acknowledgment frame generator generates a packet acknowledgment frame that is of values responsive to the detection made by the detectors and is transmitted at a transmission rate responsive to the detected data rate.