Patent ID: 8693559

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a first frame of a communication signal, the first frame includes a first plurality of constituents, one or more constituents of the first plurality of constituents of the first frame form a symbol of the first frame, wherein the symbol of the first frame includes one or more sub-carriers, and wherein the one or more sub-carriers includes data sub-carriers, pilot sub-carriers, null sub-carriers or any combination thereof; and obtaining a second frame, the second frame includes the first plurality of constituents, one or more constituents of the first plurality of constituents of the second frame form a symbol of the second frame, and the symbol of the second frame being obtained by creating redundancies by duplicating at least one of the data sub-carriers and pilot sub-carriers of the constituents of the first plurality of one or more symbols of the first frame, wherein creating redundancies by duplicating includes creating time/frequency diversity of the at least one of the data sub-carriers and the pilot sub-carriers of the constituents of the first plurality of one or more symbols of the first frame.