Patent ID: 8873655

Claim:
A device for sending, from a transmitter located in one of an evolved NodeB (eNodeB) and a User Equpiment (UE), information at a band edge of an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, comprising: a windowing module configured to apply a tapering window to at least a part of an OFDM symbol, the tapering window selected to reduce Out Of Band (OOB) spectral leakage in order to enable placement of information at the band edge of the OFDM symbol; a data module configured to provision the information to the OFDM symbol at the band edge; a transmission module, the transmission module configured to transmit the OFDM symbol with the additional information in the band edge after application of the tapering window; an equalization module, the equalization module configured to: select Inter-Carrier Interference (ICI) coefficient information corresponding to the tapering window applied at the transmitter, wherein the ICI coefficient information is known a priori for the tapering window selected; and provision the ICI coefficient information to the transmission module for transmission to a receiving device to enable the receiving device to equalize a signal associated with the OFDM symbol with the ICI coefficient information.