Methods for associating addresses in a wireless system with scalable adaptive modulation (SAM)

摘要

An inbound message is received over a scalable adaptive modulation ("SAM") interface (104). The inbound message comprises a SAM layer 2 ("L2") header and data in which the SAM L2 header encapsulates. A hardware L2 address is identified for the first device from the encapsulated data and a SAM L2 address is identified for the second device from the SAM L2 header. Once both addresses are identified, an association between the hardware L2 address of the first device and the SAM L2 address of the second device is stored. Similarly, the association may be made between the hardware L2 address of the first device and the SAM L2 address of the first device, or between an Internet protocol ("IP") address of the first device and a SAM L2 address of a second device or the first device.