Patent ID: 8249046

Claim:
A method of operating a first communication device for receiving data traffic from a second communication device in a peer-to-peer communication network, the first communication device is equipped with at least two antennas, the method comprising: receiving a first signal and a second signal at the at least two antennas in a transmission request time interval, wherein the first signal and the second signal are received in two distinct channel resources, one channel resource corresponds to at least one tone in an OFDM symbol; applying a first beamforming vector to the first signal received at the at least two antennas to recover a first transmission request signal from the second communication device; applying a second beamforming vector to the second signal received at the at least two antennas to recover a second transmission request signal from the second communication device; determining whether to send at least one request response signal to the second communication device in a subsequent request response time interval; and transmitting the at least one request response signal to the second device if it is determined to send the request response signals.