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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2004
Joachim S. Hammerschmidt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert John Kopmeiners, Hengelo, NL;
Xiaowen Wang, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Joachim S. Hammerschmidt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert John Kopmeiners, Hengelo, NL;
Xiaowen Wang, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting symbols in a multiple antenna communication system. The disclosed frame structure comprises a preamble having a plurality of long training symbols that are transmitted on a plurality transmit antennas. At least a portion of the frame is delayed on at least one transmit antenna. The disclosed frame formats of the present invention are backwards compatible to existing single antenna communication systems. The delay amount, D, can be approximately equal to one OFDM time sample period, T. The delayed version can be obtained by introducing a time delay into a signal on the delayed branch(es) or by cyclically shifting at least a portion of each frame on the delayed branch(es). The entire frame or only the preamble portion of each frame can be delayed.