Dual-mode shared OFDM methods/transmitters, receivers and systems
First Claim
1. A wireless terminal for communicating over a shared OFDM band, the wireless terminal comprising:
- a first transmit chain for generating and transmitting a low rate mode OFDM transmission in a first frequency band of the OFDM band;
a second transmit chain for generating and transmitting a burst-mode transmission in a second frequency band of the OFDM band, the first frequency band being distinct from the second frequency band.
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Abstract
A wireless terminal and network terminal are provided for implementing a new uplink OFDM protocol. In the new protocol, the wireless terminal has a first transmit chain for generating and transmitting a low rate mode OFDM transmission in a first frequency band of the OFDM band; and a second transmit chain for generating and transmitting a burst-mode transmission in a second frequency band of the OFDM band, the first frequency band being distinct from the second frequency band. An access channel is provided which is overlaid over the low rate mode transmissions of other users.
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78 Claims
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1. A wireless terminal for communicating over a shared OFDM band, the wireless terminal comprising:
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a first transmit chain for generating and transmitting a low rate mode OFDM transmission in a first frequency band of the OFDM band;
a second transmit chain for generating and transmitting a burst-mode transmission in a second frequency band of the OFDM band, the first frequency band being distinct from the second frequency band. - View Dependent Claims (2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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3. A wireless terminal for communicating over a shared OFDM band, the wireless terminal comprising:
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a first transmit chain for generating and transmitting a low rate mode OFDM transmission in a first frequency band of the OFDM band;
the first transmit chain comprises a hopping pattern generator which causes the first frequency band to hop around in frequency within a subset of the shared OFDM band allocated for low rate mode OFDM transmission. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 19, 20)
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43. A wireless terminal for communicating over a shared OFDM band, the wireless terminal comprising:
an access channel transmit chain adapted to generate an OFDM access signal occupying a randomly selected slot selected from a plurality of slots comprising a frame, each slot comprising a predetermined block of OFDM time-frequency. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47)
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61. A network terminal for receiving communications over a shared OFDM band, the network terminal comprising:
a receiver for receiving burst-mode OFDM transmissions over a first subset of the shared OFDM band and for receiving low rate mode OFDM transmissions over a second subset of the shared OFDM band. - View Dependent Claims (62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74)
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75. A system comprising:
a plurality of wireless terminals in which each wireless terminal is assigned a respective Walsh code, and each user data element produced by the wireless terminal is transmitted on a respective sub-carrier spread in time over multiple OFDM symbols, with multiple wireless terminals transmitting a respective data element simultaneously on the same sub-carrier.
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76. A system comprising a plurality of wireless terminals in which:
for a given wireless terminal, at least one is Walsh code is assigned for each channel for the wireless terminal, and each user data element of any wireless terminal is transmitted on an OFDM symbol sub-band spread in frequency over multiple OFDM sub-carriers, with multiple of the wireless terminal transmitting simultaneously on the same OFDM symbol sub-band.
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77. A method of communicating over a shared OFDM band comprising:
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generating and transmitting a low rate mode OFDM transmission in a first frequency band of the OFDM band;
generating and transmitting a burst-mode transmission in a second frequency band of the OFDM band, the first frequency band being distinct from the second frequency band. - View Dependent Claims (78)
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