Patent ID: 8351322

Claim:
A method, comprising: processing a superframe containing multiple sequential frames for communication in a wireless communications network using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) techniques, wherein a frame of the multiple sequential frames comprises a secondary advanced preamble (SA preamble) sequence comprised of at least three segments, each segment comprising sub-carriers; a hardware preamble module interspersing the sub-carriers of each segment from the at least three segments for sub-carrier mapping to sub-carriers pertaining to a single OFDM symbol, wherein a segment-specific SA preamble carrier set in the single OFDM symbol=n+3*k+(40*(NSAP/144))*(2*k/NSAP), where NSAP is a number of sub-carriers in the SA preamble, n is an index for the at least three segments with an ascending index value for each consecutive segment in the at least three segments, and k is a running index from 0 to (NSAP−1); dividing the SA Preamble into multiple sub-blocks; and applying a circular-shift SA preamble that is circularly shifted per sub-block in the multiple sub-blocks in relation to the sub-carriers in the single OFDM symbol.