A communication system includes a first physical-layer (PHY) transceiver and a second PHY transceiver. The first PHY transceiver includes (i) a first transmitter and (ii) a first receiver including a first equalizer. The second PHY transceiver includes (i) a second transmitter and (ii) a second receiver including a second equalizer. The first PHY transceiver and the second PHY transceiver are configured to communicate with one another over a full-duplex link, including training the first equalizer on a second training signal transmitted from the second PHY transceiver, and concurrently training the second equalizer on a first training signal transmitted from the first PHY transceiver.

A communication device includes a sampler configured to sample an input signal, wherein the sampler is configured to generate a sampled value for each sampling time of a sequence of sampling times, a sequence value generator configured to generate an output value for each sampling time of the sequence of sampling times based on the sampled values, wherein the sequence value generator is configured to set the output value for a sampling time based on the sampled value for the sampling time and based on a limitation of the difference between the output value for the sampling time and the output value for the preceding sampling time in the sequence of sampling times, and an edge detector configured to detect an edge in the input signal based on the output values.

A transmitter for transmitting an output signal includes first and second filter structures. The first filter structure includes a first combiner to extend a first data signal by a first reference signal to obtain a first extended data signal, and a first IIR filter for filtering the first extended data signal to obtain a first filtered data signal. The second filter structure includes a second combiner to extend a second data signal by a second reference signal, and a second IIR filter for filtering the second extended data signal. The transmitter includes a multiplexer for combining the first and second filtered data signals to obtain the output signal. A system response of the first IIR filter based on the first reference signal corresponds to a system response of the second IIR filter based on the second reference signal.

Embodiments of this disclosure provide an apparatus and method for estimating a frequency offset, an apparatus and method for estimating a channel spacing and a system. The apparatus for estimating a frequency offset includes: a synchronization extracting unit configured to perform a training sequence synchronization extraction on a receiving sequence containing a periodic training sequence to obtain the training sequence; a delay correlation processing unit configured to parallelly perform autocorrelation operations of different delay amounts on the training sequence to obtain multiple parallel correlation sequences; a superimposition processing unit configured to perform a superimposition operation on the multiple parallel correlation sequences to obtain a single sequence; and a frequency offset estimating unit configured to determine a frequency offset according to a phase of a synchronization position of the single sequence in the training sequence. With the embodiments of this disclosure, anti-noise characteristic of the frequency offset estimation may be improved.

A communication device communicates a physical (PHY) frame including a preamble and a data field. The preamble includes a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF), a Legacy Signal Field (L-SIG), an EHT (Extremely High Throughput) Signal Field (EHT-SIG-A), an EHT Short Training Field (EHT-STF), and an EHT Long Training Field (EHT-LTF), and the EHT-SIG-A includes at least one subfield indicating that the communication device performs communication in a frequency band more than 160 MHz.

A communication device communicates a physical (PHY) frame including a preamble and a data field. The preamble includes a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF), a Legacy Signal Field (L-SIG), an EHT Signal Field (EHT-SIG-A), an EHT Short Training Field (EHT-STF), and an EHT Long Training Field (EHT-LTF) and the EHT-SIG-A includes fields indicating a modulation scheme and information indicating which one of a UC (Uniform Constellation) scheme and an NUC (Non Uniform Constellation) scheme is used as the modulation scheme, and the data field includes data that has undergone modulation corresponding to the modulation scheme and the information indicated by the fields.

A communication device communicates a physical (PHY) frame including a preamble and a data field. The preamble includes a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF), a Legacy Signal Field (L-SIG), an EHT Signal Field (EHT-SIG-A), an EHT Signal Field (EHT-SIG-B), an EHT Short Training Field (EHT-STF), and an EHT Long Training Field (EHT-LTF), and the EHT-SIG-B includes a subfield indicating the number of spatial streams allocated to each of not less than one other communication device that communicates with the communication device, and the sum of the numbers of spatial streams is larger than 8.

A receiver included in a memory device includes a flag generator circuit, an equalizer circuit and an equalization controller circuit. The flag generator circuit is configured to, during a normal operation mode, generates a flag signal without an external command. The equalizer circuit is configured to, during the normal operation mode, receive an input data signal through a channel, generate an equalized signal by equalizing the input data signal based on an equalization coefficient, and generate a data sample signal including a plurality of data bits based on the equalized signal. The equalization controller circuit is configured to, during the normal operation mode, determine an amount of change in the equalization coefficient based on the flag signal, the equalized signal and the data sample signal, and perform a training operation in which the equalization coefficient is updated in real time based on the amount of change in the equalization coefficient.

A device, in a training phase, obtains Channel State Information (CSI) for one or more links between another device and at least one Access Point (AP), and in the training phase, estimates location information of the other device based on at least one geometric localization technique; and generates a database comprising CSI of the one or more links, each CSI being associated with an estimated location information. Further, a device, in a testing phase, obtains a database from another device, wherein the database comprises CSI of one or more links, each CSI being associated with an estimated location information, and in the testing phase, the device estimates CSI for one or more links between the device and at least one AP, and determine location information based on the estimated CSI of the one or more links and the database.

Various embodiments relate to a method for processing received distributed multiple-input and multiple-output (DMIMO) OFDM signals from a plurality of transmitters, including: performing an initial carrier frequency offset (CFO) correction; receiving a plurality of OFDM symbols; re-constructing the channel every N symbols based upon a channel estimate for each transmitter and an estimate of residual CFO for each of the transmitters based upon the long term fields (LTF), wherein N is an integer; and equalizing the received OFDM symbols using the re-constructed channel.