Medium access control layer that encapsulates data from a plurality of received data units into a plurality of independently transmittable blocks

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method of operating in a network in which a plurality of stations communicate over a shared medium, comprising providing a physical layer (e.g. PHY) for handling physical communication over the shared medium; providing a high level layer (e.g. PAL) that receives data from the station and supplies high level data units (e.g. MSDUs) for transmission over the medium; providing a MAC layer that receives the high level data units from the high level layer and supplies low level data units (e.g. MPDUs) to the physical layer; at the MAC layer, encapsulating content from a plurality of the high level data units; dividing the encapsulated content into a plurality of pieces (e.g. segments) …