A time domain multiple access/time division duplex (TDMA/TDD) media access
control (MAC) transmission frame includes: one or more dynamically
allocatable control packets for providing control information over a
wireless medium between a wireless base station and one or more
subscriber customer premises equipment (CPE) stations; and one or more
dynamically allocatable data packets for providing data information over
a wireless medium between a wireless base station and one or more
subscriber customer premises equipment (CPE) stations. The control
packets can include at least one of: a downstream acknowledgment slot; a
reservation request slot; an operations data slot; an upstream
acknowledgment slot; an acknowledgment request slot; a frame descriptor
slot; a command and control slot.