A bitmap manager, a method of allocating a bitmap memory, a method of
generating an acknowledgement between network entities, and a network
entity implementing the same. The bitmap manager may include a bitmap
memory for storing a block acknowledge of received frames based on a
bitmap, a bitmap management information controller for receiving a bitmap
entry number and storing bitmap management information associated with
the physical address of the bitmap memory, and a bitmap manager finite
state machine (BM FSM), receiving an update or an extract request for the
received frames, managing the bitmap management information, and updating
or extracting the bitmap memory.