Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data

1. A method for transmitting data, comprising:

encapsulating one or multiple media access control protocol data units (MPDU) as a group media access control protocol data unit (G-MPDU) based on a length of the group media access control protocol data unit G-MPDU;

when a residual length of the G-MPDU is insufficient to encapsulate a current MPDU, the residual length being the length of the G-MPDU subtracting a length of the one or multiple MPDUs encapsulated in the G-MPDU,

determining whether the residual length is longer than a preset minimum fragmentation length;

when the residual length equals to or is shorter than the preset minimum fragmentation length, completing encapsulation of the G-MPDU, leaving the residual length of the G-MPDU empty;

when the residual length is longer than the preset minimum fragmentation length, fragmenting the current MPDU according to the residual length to obtain a fragmented MPDU;

encapsulating the fragmented MPDU to the G-MPDU; and

transmitting the encapsulated G-MPDU.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

encapsulating a MPDU to a sub-frame of G-MPDU;

placing a delimiter before the MPDU; and

placing a padding bit after the MPDU to make a length of the sub-frame a multiple of 2 bytes,

wherein the sub-frame of G-MPDU is formed, in sequence, by the delimiter, the MPDU, and the padding bit.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the delimiter includes a delimiter identification and length check information.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein:

each MPDU is sequentially formed of: a frame header, a frame body, and a frame check sequence;

the frame header is sequentially formed of: a frame control information, a fragmentation sequence number identifying a number of a fragmentation in a same sequence, a sequence number identifying a number of a MPDU, a reserved field, and a one-bit fragmentation indication information identifying whether a fragmentation of the current MPDU is expected afterwards, and a length information indicating a length between the frame header and the frame check sequence; and

the frame control information is sequentially formed of: a protocol version, a frame type indicating a management control data, a sub-type explaining the frame type in detail, a flow identification, a one-bit re-transmission instruction identifying whether the current MPDU is a re-transmission of a previous frame, and a reserved field.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

encapsulating the fragmented MPDU before other MPDUs when encapsulating the G-MPDU.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a fragmentation number for said fragmented MPDU.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:

setting fragmentation indication information for said fragmented MPDU.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the fragmentation indication information indicates whether there is more fragmentation of the current MPDU after itself.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the length of said G-MPDU is determined based on currently assigned transmission resources.

10. A method for receiving data, comprising:

receiving and analyzing a plurality of group media access control protocol data units G-MPDUs, wherein:

each G-MPDU includes one or multiple sub-frames;

one MPDU is encapsulated in each sub-frame of the G-MPDU;

the MPDU could be either a fragmented MPDU or a non-fragmented MPDU;

when a last component of a G-MPDU is a sub-frame encapsulating a fragmented MPDU, a length of the fragmented MPDU is longer than a preset minimum fragmentation length; and

when a last component of a G-MPDU is a residual, a length of the residual is the same or shorter than the preset minimum fragmentation length; and

restructuring the fragmented MPDU with a same sequence number.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

placing the non-fragmented MPDUs into a buffer window corresponding to a flow identification;

placing the fragmented MPDU into a fragmentation buffer corresponding to a flow identification;

restructuring the fragmented MPDU with the same sequence number;

recovering a non-fragmented MPDU from the restructured MPDU;

placing the recovered MPDU into the buffer window; and

transmitting MPDUs cached within the buffer window to an upper layer.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

restructuring all fragmented MPDU with the same sequence number in turn of the fragmentation number; and

recovering a non-fragmented MPDU.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

confirming whether there is more fragmentation of the current MPDU based on fragmentation indication information.

14. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

encapsulating a delimiter in each sub-frame, wherein the sub-frame is formed, in sequence, by the delimiter, the MPDU, and a padding bit to make a length of the sub-frame a multiple of 2 bytes;

locating a starting position of a MPDU in the sub-frame based on the delimiter; and

analyzing the MPDU in the located sub-frame.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:

obtaining a length of the MPDU after locating the starting position of the MPDU in the sub-frame; and

locating the starting position of a MPDU in the next sub-frame.

16. An apparatus for transmitting data, comprising:

an encapsulating module configured to:

encapsulate one or multiple media access control protocol data units (MPDUs) to a group media access control protocol data unit (G-MPDU) according to the length of the G-MPDU;

when a residual length of the G-MPDU is insufficient to encapsulate a current MPDU,

determine whether the residual length is longer than a preset minimum fragmentation length;

when the residual length equals to or is shorter than the preset minimum fragmentation length, completing encapsulation of the G-MPDU, leaving the residual length of the G-MPDU empty; and

when the residual length is longer than the preset minimum fragmentation length, fragment the current MPDU on the basis of the residual length to obtain a fragmented MPDU; and

encapsulate the fragmented MPDU to the G-MPDU; and

a transmitting module configured to transmit the encapsulated G-MPDU.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the encapsulating module is further configured to:

place a delimiter before the MPDU; and

place a padding bit after the MPDU to make a length of a sub-frame a multiple of 2 bytes;

wherein the sub-frame of G-MPDU is formed, in sequence, by the delimiter, the MPDU, and the padding bit.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the encapsulating module is further configured to encapsulate the fragmented MPDU before other MPDUs when encapsulating the G-MPDU.

19. An apparatus for receiving data, comprising:

a receiving and analyzing module configured to receive and analyze a plurality of group media access control protocol data units (G-MPDUs); wherein:

each G-MPDU includes one or multiple sub-frames;

one MPDU is encapsulated in each sub-frame of the G-MPDU;

a MPDU is a fragmented MPDU or a non-fragmented MPDU;

when a last component of a G-MPDU is a sub-frame encapsulating a fragmented MPDU, a length of the fragmented MPDU is longer than a preset minimum fragmentation length; and

when a last component of a G-MPDU is a residual, a length of the residual is shorter than the preset minimum fragmentation length; and

a processing module configured to restructure a fragmented MPDU with a same sequence number.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the processing module is further configured to:

place the non-fragmented MPDU into a buffer window corresponding to a flow identification;

place the fragmented MPDU into a fragmentation buffer corresponding to a flow identification;

restructure the fragmented MPDU with the same sequence number;

recover a non-fragmented MPDU from the restructured fragmented MPDU;

place the recovered MPDU into the buffer window; and

transmit MPDUs cached within the buffer window to an upper layer.