Patent ID: 7826545

Claim:
An information storage media including information stored thereon that, in response to execution of the information, causes one or more modules of a multicarrier communication system to perform a variable state length initialization, including: a transmission, from a first multicarrier transceiver to a second multicarrier transceiver, of information identifying a first value that is used to determine a first minimum number of multicarrier symbols; a transmission, from the second multicarrier transceiver to the first multicarrier transceiver, of information identifying a second value that is used to determine a second minimum number of multicarrier symbols; a selection, by the first multicarrier transceiver, of the greater of the first minimum number of multicarrier symbols and the second minimum number of multicarrier symbols; and a transmission, from the first multicarrier transceiver to the second multicarrier transceiver, of the selected number of multicarrier symbols during an initialization state.