Patent ID: 8194637

Claim:
A method comprising: indicating at least timing, channel bandwidth, and system synchronicity in a first acquisition pilot (TDM 1 ); sequencing said TDM 1 using one of a plurality of time-repeating sequences; forming a second and third acquisition pilot (TDM 2 and TDM 3 ) using information selected according to said system synchronicity, wherein one of said TDM 1 , TDM 2 and TDM 3 comprises a cyclic prefix length and another one of said TDM 1 , TDM 2 and TDM 3 comprises sync/async information, wherein said TDM 2 comprises a first portion of a pilot phase or sector identity information, and wherein said TDM 3 comprises a remaining portion of the pilot phase or sector identity info information but does not comprise the first portion; and transmitting a superframe preamble including said TDM 1 , TDM 2 , and TDM 3 .