Abstract:
In a generic Media Access Control (MAC) protocol, the retransmission of a dropped MAC frame is independent of the payload. Methods, systems, and computer products defining a mechanism of retransmission of one or more frames based on content of the payload are provided. The system identifies the content as text or video and retransmits if the content is text. The one or more frames may be retransmitted using a specific retransmission scheme. The retransmission is checked again to determine if it is was dropped, and transmitted again if it was dropped.