Patent ID: 8391399
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A communications system, comprising: one or more antennas operable to receive a signal transmitted from a transmitter; and a receiver coupled to the one or more antennas, the receiver comprising a combiner operable to combine the signals received by the one or more antennas into a combined signal; wherein the signal received by the receiver is a single-carrier waveform comprising a signal field and one or more data fields after the signal field, the signal field indicating a modulation technique of the one or more data fields, the one or more data fields comprising: wherein the receiver is operable to perform rapid channel estimation by: computing a first channel estimation using the first short unique word of the data field; computing a second channel estimation using the second short unique word of the data field; and averaging the first and second channel estimations.