US 7,349,436 B2
Systems and methods for high-throughput wideband wireless local area network communications
Alexander A. Maltsev, Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Federation); Ali S Sadri, San Diego, Calif. (US); Vadim S Sergeyev, Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Federation); and Adrian P Stephens, Cottenham (United Kingdom)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/676,372.
Prior Publication US 2005/0078707 A1, Apr. 14, 2005
Int. Cl. H04J 3/16 (2006.01); H04J 3/22 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 370—471 36 Claims
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1. A method for wirelessly communicating a packet over a wideband communication channel comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) channels, the method comprising communicating:
a channelization field on a single OFDM channel identifying which of the OFDM channels that are used for communicating subsequent wideband fields of the packet; and
a wideband-header field on each of the identified OFDM channels to identify sub-fields present in the wideband-header field and the presence of a wideband-data field following the wideband-header field,
wherein the OFDM channels that comprise the wideband channel are separated in frequency from each other.