In a wireless local area network (LAN) system, a station (STA) generates an NGV PPDU, wherein the NGV PPDU comprises: a first legacy control field; a second legacy control field in which the first legacy control field is repeated; a first NGV control field; a second NGV control field in which the first NGV control field is repeated; an NGV-short training field (NGVSTF); and an NGV-long training field (NGV-LTF), and the first NGV control field is consecutive to the second legacy control field, the second NGV control field is consecutive to the first NGV control field, and the control information may include 1-bit information related to the NGV-LTF. The STA may transmit the NGV PPDU.

Techniques for signaling new versions of a communication protocol differentiated from legacy versions of the communication protocol that are interoperable with stations implementing legacy versions of the communication protocol, that are compatible with future new versions of the communication protocol, and that do not overly complicate the receiver state machine have been disclosed.

The present invention employs a pilot scheme for frequency division multiple access (FDM) communication systems, such as single carrier FDM communication systems. A given transmit time interval will include numerous traffic symbols and two or more short pilot symbols, which are spaced apart from one another by at least one traffic symbol and will have a Fourier transform length that is less than the Fourier transform length of any given traffic symbol. Multiple transmitters will generate pilot information and modulate the pilot information onto sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols in an orthogonal manner. Each transmitter may use different sub-carriers within the time and frequency domain, which is encompassed by the short pilot symbols within the transmit time interval. Alternatively, each transmitter may uniquely encode the pilot information using a unique code division multiplexed code and modulate the encoded pilot information onto common sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols.

Methods and systems that can enable antenna selection (AS) and data bits in transmitted spatially modulated (SM) streams to be detected at a receiver using different detection methods. In example embodiments, encoding for an AS stream is done separately at a transmitter than encoding for data streams, enabling a receiver to use one type of detection for AS bits and a reduced complexity type of MIMO detection for the data bits.

Method, apparatus and systems are disclosed that may be implemented. One method implemented by a transceiver, is directed to transmission via a plurality of beams. The method includes obtaining an input bit stream and bit mapping bits of the input bit stream into at least a first stream and a second stream. The method further includes, generating one or more complex symbols using the first stream, selecting a Space-Time (ST) spreading matrix from a plurality of ST spreading matrices and spreading the generated one or more complex symbols over the selected ST spreading matrix to generate one or more dispersed ST codewords. In this method the transceiver maps the one or more dispersed ST codewords to a plurality of beams and transmits the mapped one or more dispersed ST codewords over the plurality of beams.

The present disclosure relates to techniques for forward error correction and packet padding in radio transmission, e.g. WiFi communication schemes such as IEEE 802.11ax and 802.11be. In particular, the disclosure relates to a communication device configured to: transmit and/or receive a data frame based on a set of pre&post-Forward Error Correction (pre&post-FEC) parameters and a set of packet extension (PE) parameters, wherein the set of pre&post-FEC parameters is based on an extension of a set of pre&post-FEC parameters defined for a second radio transmission technology with respect to a size of resource units (RUs) supported by a first radio transmission technology, wherein the set of pre&post-FEC parameters is based on a combination of RUs that is supported by the first radio transmission technology, and wherein the set of PE parameters is based on an extension of a set of PE parameters defined for the second radio transmission technology.

A disclosed transmitter for wireless communication includes multiple transmitting antennas, a symbol mapper for mapping an input block including multiple binary bits and representing information to be transmitted to a symbol representing an ordered plurality of complex numbers, a space-time encoder for applying an encoding operator to the symbol to produce a vectorized space-time codeword defining electrical signals to be transmitted by the transmitter, the encoding operator being dependent on a set of predefined stabilizer generators, and circuitry to collectively transmit, by the antennas to multiple receiving antennas of a receiver over a wireless transmission channel, the electrical signals defined by the vectorized space-time codeword. The receiver includes a space-time decoder for recovering the symbol from the electrical signals transmitted by the transmitter using a decoding operation that is based on maximum likelihood inference, and a symbol de-mapper for recovering the input block from the symbol.

Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.

The present application discloses a method for operating a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving a series of input data bits in a current timeslot by a transmitter and encoding the input data bits with a cross-Gray coding scheme to obtain coded information bits. Additionally, the method includes mapping the coded information bits to obtain respective multiple transmission symbols X.sub.t for the current timeslot in a constellation diagram. Furthermore, the method includes converting the multiple transmission symbols X.sub.t to generate a space-time matrix S.sub.t of the current timeslot by incorporating spatial bits associated with orders of respective transmitting antennas based on a space-time matrix S.sub.t-1 of a previous timeslot. Moreover, the method includes transmitting a respective one of elements in the space-time matrix S.sub.t using a respective one transmitting antenna activated in the transmitter.

Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions using a reduced number of antennas (e.g., a number of transmit antennas that is smaller than a number of layers of the MIMO transmission). The MIMO transmission may communicate multiple streams of data to a second wireless device. The MIMO transmission may further be used for sensing applications, e.g., based on reflection of the MIMO transmission.