TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATING AN END OF PACKET INDICATOR

1 . An apparatus, comprising:

a transceiver to communicate one or more packets; and

a physical (PHY) layer controller to:

generate a packet comprising at least a preamble, a header including a PHY layer termination indicator, and data;

determine an end of the packet based on information received from a media access control (MAC) layer;

generate an end of packet indicator for the packet; and

communicate, via the transceiver, the packet including the preamble, the PHY layer termination indicator, and the data as one or more blocks, at least a portion of the packet communicated with the end of packet indicator.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , the PHY layer termination indicator comprising a bit in a reserve field of the header to indicate the packet is PHY layer terminated.

3 . The apparatus of claim 2 , the end of packet indicator comprising an inverted polarity guard interval sequence, and the PHY layer controller to append the inverted polarity guard interval sequence to a last data block of the one or more blocks to indicate the end of the packet.

4 . The apparatus of claim 2 , the end of packet indicator comprising one or more Golay sequences, and the PHY layer controller to communicate, via the transceiver, the one or more Golay sequences in parallel with a last two data blocks of the one or more blocks of the packet to indicate the end of the packet, the one or more Golay sequences communicated at a lower power than the PHY layer packet.

5 . The apparatus of claim 4 , the one or more Golay sequences comprising at least one Golay sequence used for one or more of a channel estimation and a short training field for the packet.

6 . The apparatus of claim 2 , the end of packet indicator comprising a pseudo-random sequence, and the PHY layer controller to append the pseudo-random sequence after a last byte of the data prior to low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoding.

7 . The apparatus of claim 2 , the end of packet indicator comprising one or more Golay sequences, and the PHY layer controller to append the one or more Golay sequences after a last guard interval value of the packet.

8 . The apparatus of claim 2 , the PHY layer controller to determine the end of the packet based on one or more of a MAC layer buffer being empty and/or an indication of the end of the packet received from the MAC layer.

9 . A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating, by a physical (PHY) layer controller, a packet comprising at least a preamble, a header including a PHY layer termination indicator, and data;

determining, by the PHY layer controller, an end of the packet based on information received from a media access control (MAC) layer;

generating, by the PHY layer controller, an end of packet indicator for the packet; and

communicating, by the PHY layer controller, the packet including the preamble, the PHY layer termination indicator, and the data as one or more blocks, at least a portion of the packet communicated with the end of packet indicator.

10 . The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , comprising appending, by the PHY layer controller, the end of packet indicator comprising an inverted polarity guard interval value to a last data block of the one or more blocks.

11 . The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , comprising communicating, by the PHY layer controller, the end of packet indicator comprising one or more Golay sequences in parallel with a last two blocks of the one or more blocks and at a lower power than the packet.

12 . The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , comprising using, by the PHY layer controller, at least one Golay sequence used for one or more of a channel estimation value and a short training field value as the one or more Golay sequences to indicate the end of the packet.

13 . The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , comprising appending, by the PHY layer controller, the end of packet indicator comprising a pseudo-random sequence after a last byte of the data, the appending to occur prior to performing low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoding.

14 . The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , comprising appending, by the PHY layer controller, the end of packet indicator comprising one or more Golay sequences after a last guard interval value of the packet.

15 . An apparatus, comprising:

a transceiver to communicate one or more packets; and

a physical (PHY) layer controller to:

receive a packet as one or more blocks, the packet comprising a preamble, a header and data;

determine whether the packet is PHY layer terminated based on a PHY layer termination indicator set in the header of the packet;

detect an end of packet indicator generated at a PHY layer of a sending device based on whether the packet is PHY layer terminated; and

determine an end of the packet based on the end of packet indicator.

16 . The apparatus of claim 15 , the end of packet indicator comprising an inverted polarity guard interval value after a last data block of the one or more blocks to indicate the end of the packet.

17 . The apparatus of claim 15 , the end of packet indicator comprising one or more Golay sequences received in parallel with a last two blocks of the one or more blocks of the packet to indicate the end of the packet, the one or more Golay sequences communicated at a lower power than the packet.

18 . The apparatus of claim 17 , the one or more Golay sequences comprising at least one Golay sequence used for one or more of a channel estimation value and a short training field value in the preamble of the packet.

19 . The apparatus of claim 17 , the end of packet indicator comprising a pseudo-random sequence appended after a last byte of data, and the PHY layer controller to detect the pseudo-random sequence after performing low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding.

20 . The apparatus of claim 17 , the end of packet indicator comprising one or more Golay sequences appended after a last guard interval value in a last block of the one or more blocks for the packet.

21 . A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, by a physical (PHY) layer controller, a packet as one or more blocks, the packet comprising a preamble, a header and data;

determining, by the PHY layer controller, whether the packet is PHY layer terminated based on a PHY layer termination indicator set in the header of the packet;

detecting, by the PHY layer controller, an end of packet indicator generated at a PHY layer of a sending device based on the determination whether the packet is PHY layer terminated or not; and

determining, by the PHY layer controller, an end of the packet based on the end of packet indicator.

22 . The computer-implemented method of claim 21 , comprising detecting the end of packet indicator comprising an inverted polarity guard interval value after a last data block of the one or more blocks.

23 . The computer-implemented method of claim 21 , comprising detecting the end of packet indicator comprising one or more Golay sequences received in parallel with a last two blocks of the one or more blocks, the one or more Golay sequences communicated at a lower power than the packet.

24 . The computer-implemented method of claim 21 , comprising detecting the end of packet indicator comprising a pseudo-random sequence appended after a last byte of data, the detecting the pseudo-random sequence to occur after performing low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding.

25 . The computer-implemented method of claim 21 , comprising detecting the end of packet indicator comprising one or more Golay sequences appended after a last guard interval value for the packet.