Patent ID: 7974254

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving fixed preamble symbols; decoding layer 1 (L1) pre-signaling information from the fixed preamble symbols; determining that a cyclic redundancy coding check passes based on an analysis of cyclic redundancy coding of the decoded L1 pre-signaling information; and in response to determining that the cyclic redundancy coding check passes, processing the decoded L1 pre-signaling information, the processing including: inspecting a type field of the decoded L1 pre-signaling information to identify a type field value, determining that the identified type field value is one of a plurality of supported types, each of the plurality of supported types identifying different information about transmitted information, and in response to determining that the identified type field is one of the plurality of supported types, extracting one or more parameters for L1 signaling information from the decoded L1 pre-signaling information, storing the one or more parameters for L1 signaling information, and receiving and decoding additional preamble symbols.