CPC H04L 5/0053 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04W 4/18 (2013.01); H04W 28/06 (2013.01); H04W 28/065 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |
1. A method for data transmission, by a transmitting node, in a communication network, the method comprising:
generating a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU), comprising a MAC service data unit (SDU), and a subheader; and
transmitting the MAC PDU,
wherein the subheader comprises a length field indicating a length of the MAC SDU, and at least one of a first format indicator field and a second format indicator field,
wherein the length of the MAC SDU is indicated by the length field of a first size, in case that a value of the first format indicator field is set to zero and a value of the second format indicator field is set to zero,
wherein the length of the MAC SDU is indicated by the length field of a second size, in case that the value of the first format indicator field is set to zero and the value of the second format indicator field is set to one,
wherein the length of the MAC SDU is indicated by the length field of a third size, in case that the value of the first format indicator field is set to one and the second format indicator field does not exist, and
wherein a size of the length field includes one of the first size, the second size, and the third size, and the size of the length field is greater than zero.
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