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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2002
Formatter, method of formatting encoded symbols and wireless communication system employing the same
Applicant:
Gerard J. Foschini, Sayrerville, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Gerard J. Foschini, Sayrerville, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 4/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a formatter, a method of formatting encoded symbols and a wireless communication system employing the same. In one embodiment, the formatter includes a symbol generator that provides a plurality of encoded symbols from a bit stream. The formatter also includes a symbol mapping organizer that maps the plurality of encoded symbols into information cells, each having a unique space coordinate, time coordinate and degree of freedom within a frequency band. The information cells are arranged in a parallelopiped communication resource volume.