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• Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to methods and apparatuses for mixed-rate communication in a wireless network.
• Wireless networks are often preferred when the network elements are mobile and thus have dynamic connectivity needs, or if the network architecture is formed in an ad hoc, rather than fixed, topology.
• Wireless networks employ intangible physical media in an unguided propagation mode using electromagnetic waves in the radio, microwave, infra-red, optical, etc. frequency bands. Wireless networks advantageously facilitate user mobility and rapid field deployment when compared to fixed wired networks.
• One aspect of the present disclosure provides a method of wireless communication.
• the method includes generating, at a wireless device, a packet including a plurality of symbols.
• the method further includes segmenting an input bit vector into a plurality of symbol vectors according to one of a sequential or distributed segmentation procedure.
• the method further includes splitting each of the plurality of symbol vectors into two or more split vectors according to one of a sequential or round- robin split procedure.
• the method further includes mapping each of the split vectors into the plurality of symbols according to one of a block-level repetition or a symbol- level repetition.
• the method further includes transmitting the packet.
• the plurality of symbols can include a signal field having a first data rate
• the packet can further include a data portion, having a second data rate greater than or equal to the first data rate.
• segmenting the input bit vector into the plurality of symbol vectors can include allocating sequential groups of N input bits to each symbol vector in turn, wherein N is the number of bits per orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol.
• OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
• mapping each of the split vectors into the plurality of symbols can include repeating each of the split vectors, in the frequency domain, across a single time-domain symbol.
• the apparatus can further include applying a scrambling sequence to one copy of each split vector.
• mapping each of the split vectors into the plurality of symbols can include repeating each of the split vectors, in the frequency domain, across a plurality of time-domain symbols. In various embodiments, mapping each of the split vectors into the plurality of symbols can include repeating each of the split vectors across a plurality of time-domain symbols.
• the plurality of symbols can include a signal field having a first data rate
• the packet can further include a data portion, having a second data rate greater than or equal to the first data rate.
• means for segmenting the input bit vector into the plurality of symbol vectors can include means for allocating sequential groups of N input bits to each symbol vector in turn, wherein N is the number of bits per orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol.
• OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
• means for segmenting the input bit vector into the plurality of symbol vectors can include means for allocating each of input bits to the I modulo Kth symbol vector, wherein I is an index number of each bit, and wherein K is the ceiling of: the length of the input bit vector divided by the number of bits per orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol.
• I is an index number of each bit
• K is the ceiling of: the length of the input bit vector divided by the number of bits per orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol.
• means for mapping each of the split vectors into the plurality of symbols can include means for repeating each of the split vectors, in the frequency domain, across a single time-domain symbol.
• the apparatus can further include means for applying a scrambling sequence to one copy of each split vector.
• means for mapping each of the split vectors into the plurality of symbols can include means for repeating each of the split vectors, in the frequency domain, across a plurality of time-domain symbols. In various embodiments, means for mapping each of the split vectors into the plurality of symbols can include means for repeating each of the split vectors across a plurality of time-domain symbols.
• FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate data packet formats for several currently existing IEEE
• FIG. 9 shows a flowchart for an exemplary method of wireless communication that can be employed within the wireless communication system of FIG. 1.
• a variety of processes and methods can be used for transmissions in the wireless communication system 100 between the AP 104 and the STAs 106A-106D.
• signals can be sent and received between the AP 104 and the STAs 106A- 106D in accordance with OFDM/OFDMA techniques. If this is the case, the wireless communication system 100 can be referred to as an OFDM/OFDMA system.
• signals can be sent and received between the AP 104 and the STAs 106A-106D in accordance with code division multiple access (CDMA) techniques. If this is the case, the wireless communication system 100 can be referred to as a CDMA system.
• CDMA code division multiple access
• a communication link that facilitates transmission from the AP 104 to one or more of the STAs 106A-106D can be referred to as a downlink (DL) 108, and a communication link that facilitates transmission from one or more of the STAs 106A- 106D to the AP 104 can be referred to as an uplink (UL) 110.
• DL downlink
• UL uplink
• a downlink 108 can be referred to as a forward link or a forward channel
• an uplink 110 can be referred to as a reverse link or a reverse channel.
• the AP 104 includes an AP high efficiency wireless controller (HEW) 154.
• the AP HEW 154 can perform some or all of the operations described herein to enable communications between the AP 104 and the STAs 106A- 106D using the 802.11 protocol.
• the functionality of the AP HEW 154 is described in greater detail below with respect to FIGS. 2-9.
• an 802.1 lac packet can contain a VHT-STF, which is configured to improve automatic gain control estimation in a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmission.
• the next 1 to 8 fields of an 802.1 lac packet can be VHT-LTFs. These can be used for estimating the MIMO channel and then equalizing the received signal.
• the number of VHT-LTFs sent can be greater than or equal to the number of spatial streams per user.
• the last field in the preamble before the data field is the VHT-SIG-B 454.
• This field is BPSK modulated, and provides information on the length of the useful data in the packet and, in the case of a multiple user (MU) MIMO packet, provides the MCS. In a single user (SU) case, this MCS information is instead contained in the VHT-SIGA2. Following the VHT-SIG-B, the data symbols are transmitted.
• the input vector 805 can be segmented into the symbol vectors 810 according to the equation of option 1.2, where bits of the input vector 805 are segmented in a distributed manner.
• the first bit of the symbol vector Xo can include the first bit of the input vector 805, the first bit of the symbol vector Xi can include the 2nd bit of the input vector 805, and so on.
• the second bit of the symbol vector X 0 can include the (K+l)th bit of the input vector 805, the second bit of the symbol vector X x can include the (K+2)th bit of the input vector 805, and so on.
• FIG. 9 shows a flowchart 900 for an exemplary method of wireless communication that can be employed within the wireless communication system 100 of FIG. 1.
• the method can be implemented in whole or in part by the devices described herein, such as the wireless device 202 shown in FIG. 2.
• the illustrated method is described herein with reference to the wireless communication system 100 discussed above with respect to FIG. 1 and the symbol packing process flow 800 discussed above with respect to FIG. 8, a person having ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the illustrated method can be implemented by another device described herein, or any other suitable device.
• the illustrated method is described herein with reference to a particular order, in various embodiments, blocks herein can be performed in a different order, or omitted, and additional blocks can be added.
• the first bit of the split vector 815A can include the first bit of the symbol vector 810
• the first bit of the split vector 815B can include the second bit of the symbol vector 810
• the second bit of the split vector 815A can include the third bit of the symbol vector 810
• the second bit of the split vector 815B can include the fourth bit of the symbol vector 810, and so on.
• the wireless device transmits the packet.
• the processor For example, the processor
• the generating circuit can be configured to generate the packet. In some embodiments, the generating circuit can be configured to perform at least block 910 of FIG. 9.
• the generating circuit can include one or more of the processor 204 (FIG. 2), the memory 206 (FIG. 2), and the DSP 220 (FIG. 2). In some implementations, means for generating can include the generating circuit.
• DSP digital signal processor
• ASIC application specific integrated circuit
• FPGA field programmable gate array signal
• PLD programmable logic device
• a general purpose processor can be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor can be any commercially available processor, controller, microcontroller or state machine.

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