CPC H04L 1/1621 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1874 (2013.01); H04L 1/1887 (2013.01); H04L 1/1893 (2013.01); H04W 72/12 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02)] | 19 Claims |
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
identifying, by an access point (AP) multilink device (MLD) in a wireless network, a first sequence number space (SNS) that is to be used by the AP MLD to transmit data to a non-AP MLD over a first communications link and a second communications link, wherein frames with identical data that are transmitted over the first and second communications links will have an identical first SN based on the first SNS;
identifying, by the AP MLD in the wireless network, the first SN based on the first SNS; and
transmitting, by the AP MLD in the wireless network, a frame that includes the data to the non-AP MLD based on the first SN;
identifying, by the AP MLD in the wireless network, a second SNS that is to be used by the AP MLD to transmit groupcast with retry block acknowledgment (GCR-BA) data over the first communications link and the second communications link, wherein identical frames unicast on the first and second communications links that include identical GCR-BA data have an identical second SN based on the second SNS;
identifying, by the AP MLD in the wireless network, the second SN based on the second SNS; and
transmitting, by the AP MLD in the wireless network, a frame that includes the GCR-BA data to the non-AP MLD based on the second SN.
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