Patent ID: 9673960
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A full-duplex transceiver, comprising: a digital signal processor configured to modulate transmit data into transmit symbols and to demodulate receive symbols into receive data; a transmit chain configured to transmit the transmit symbols over a first antenna; a receive chain configured to receive the receive symbols over a second antenna, wherein at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna comprises an electrically reconfigurable antenna having a plurality of electrically-actuated reconfigurable antenna modes; and an antenna controller configured to set a mode of the electrically reconfigurable antenna, wherein the digital signal processor and the transmit chain are further configured to transmit a set of training symbols during a training interval; and the antenna controller is further configured to select a respective mode of the electrically reconfigurable antenna for individual training symbols in the set of training symbols during the training interval.