Patent ID: 7149239

Claim:
A method of determining channel impulse responses of a plurality of channels to a communication device, the method comprising: performing transform operations on both a replica of a signal sequence s n and a received training sequence y n received by the communication device in at least one burst, the received training sequence y n being the signal sequence as received through a channel, the transform operations arranged to generate a multiplicity of signal sequence frequency bins and a multiplicity of training sequence frequency bins; performing point-by-point operations between corresponding signal sequence frequency bins and training sequence frequency bins; and concatenating the point-by-point operations associated with the channel to provide a composite frequency response for the channel, the composite frequency response allowing, in the time domain, generation of a channel impulse response H for the channel; wherein multiple Steiner codes are transmitted as training sequences, the multiple Steiner codes sent from multiple transmit elements in multiple training bursts.