Patent ID: 8498350

Claim:
A transceiver configured to transmit and receive a packet-based waveform over at least one communication channel, the transceiver comprising: an input configured to receive data to be transmitted; an antenna configured to transmit a transmit signal comprising the waveform and to receive a received signal comprising the waveform, the waveform operating over a plurality of bandwidth channel segments and each packet of the waveform comprising a preamble segment, a packet self discovery segment and a payload segment; a modulator coupled to the input and configured to modulate the data to provide modulated data; a control processor module configured to generate each packet of the waveform from the modulated data as a sequence of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, each symbol of the waveform modulated onto one the plurality of bandwidth channel segments, and the control processor including a Fourier transform module configured to generate each symbol by computing an inverse fast Fourier transform of the modulated data; a demodulator configured to demodulate the received signal based at least in part on a number of bandwidth channel segments within the plurality of bandwidth channel segments, the number defined in the packet self discovery segment; a pilot channel encoder configured to embed periodic pilot symbols within the payload segment of each packet of the waveform; and a synchronization module configured to acquire a time of arrival of the received signal by individually correlating each symbol of the preamble segment of the waveform to provide a series of correlations and summing the series of correlations.