System and method for non-interfering signaling and reception of overlapping single carrier transmissions over delay spread channels

1. A method comprising:

grouping data, by a transmitter, into a block of symbols;

repeating the block of symbols a predetermined number of times to form a repetition-encoded super-block;

multiplying the repetition-encoded super-block by a complex-valued phase ramp sequence resulting in a sequence, wherein the complex-valued phase ramp sequence is chosen from a set of different phase ramp sequences;

adding a symbol prefix at the beginning of the sequence, resulting in a phase-ramped super-block;

transmitting, by the transmitter, the phase-ramped super-block;

receiving, by a receiver, a received phase-ramped super-block from the transmitter;

discarding the symbol prefix of the received phase-ramped super-block resulting in a received sequence;

de-ramping the received sequence resulting in a received super-block;

parsing the received super-block into a predetermined number of parsed blocks; and

determining a single average block from the predetermined number of parsed blocks.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising pulse-shaping filtering of the phase-ramped super-block.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising match filtering the received phase-ramped super-block prior to de-ramping the received sequence at the receiver.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting the phase-ramped super-block at an antenna array wherein the phase-ramped super-block is a probe signal.

5. A method comprising:

grouping data, by a transmitter, into a block of symbols;

repeating the block of symbols a predetermined number of times to form a repetition-encoded super-block;

multiplying the repetition-encoded super-block by a complex-value phase ramp sequence resulting in a sequence, wherein the complex-valued phase ramp sequence is chosen from a set of different phase ramp sequences;

adding a symbol prefix at the beginning of the sequence resulting in a phase-ramped super-block; and

transmitting, by the transmitter, the phase-ramped super-block.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the set of different phase ramp sequences contains a predetermined number of phase ramp sequences.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the block of symbols contains the symbol prefix.

8. A method comprising:

receiving, by a receiver, a received phase-ramped super-block from a transmitter, wherein the phase-ramped super-block has a symbol prefix;

discarding the symbol prefix resulting in a received sequence;

de-ramping the received sequence resulting in a received super-block;

parsing the received super-block into a predetermined number of parsed blocks; and

determining a single average block from the predetermined number of parsed blocks.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising processing the received phase-ramped super-block in the time domain.

10. A system, comprising:

a transmitter comprising:

a block repeater configured to group data into a block of symbols and repeat the block of symbols a predetermined number of times to form a repetition-encoded super-block; and

a phase ramper configured to multiply the repetition-encoded super-block by a complex-valued phase ramp sequence resulting in a sequence, wherein the complex-valued phase ramp sequence is chosen from a set of different phase ramp sequences, and wherein a prefix sequence having a symbol prefix is added to the beginning of the sequence resulting in a phase-ramped super-block; and

a receiver configured to receive a received phase-ramped super-block from the transmitter having a received prefix sequence;

the receiver comprising:

a phase de-ramper configured to discard that discards the received prefix sequence resulting in a received sequence and de-ramp the received sequence resulting in a received super-block, and further configured to parse the received super-block into a predetermined number of parsed blocks, and to determine a single average block from the predetermined number of parsed blocks.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the transmitter further comprises a pulse-shaping filter configured to filter the phase-ramped super-block.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the receiver further comprises a matched filter configured to filter the received phase-ramped super-block prior to the phase de-ramper de-ramping the received sequence.

13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the transmitter further comprises an antenna array configured to transmit the phase-ramped super-block, wherein the phase-ramped super-block is a probe signal.

14. A transmitter comprising:

a block repeater configured to group data into a block of symbols and repeat the block of symbols a predetermined number of times to form a repetition-encoded super-block; and

a phase ramper configured to multiply a complex-value phase ramp sequence by the repetition-encoded super-block resulting in a sequence, wherein the complex-valued phase ramp sequence is chosen from a set of different phase ramp sequences, and wherein a prefix sequence having a symbol prefix is added to the beginning of the sequence resulting in a phase-ramped super-block.

15. The transmitter of claim 14 , wherein the block of symbols contains the symbol prefix.

16. A receiver, comprising:

the receiver configured to receive a received phase-ramped super-block from a transmitter having a received prefix sequence;

a phase de-ramper configured to:

discard the received prefix sequence resulting in a received sequence;

de-ramp the received sequence resulting in a received super-block;

parse the received super-block into a predetermined number of parsed blocks; and

to determine a single average block from the predetermined number of parsed blocks.

17. The receiver of claim 16 , wherein the received phase-ramped super-block is processed in the time domain.

18. A tangible computer-readable medium having non-transitory computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations, the instructions comprising:

instructions for grouping data into a block of symbols;

instructions for repeating the block of symbols a predetermined number of times to form a repetition-encoded super-block;

instructions for multiplying the repetition-encoded super-block by a complex-valued phase ramp sequence resulting in a sequence, wherein the complex-valued phase ramp is chosen from a set of different phase ramp sequences;

instructions for adding a symbol prefix at the beginning of the sequence resulting in a phase-ramped super-block;

instructions for transmitting the phase-ramped super-block;

instructions for receiving a received phase-ramped super block;

instructions for discarding the symbol prefix of the received phase-ramped super-block resulting in a received sequence;

instructions for de-ramping the received sequence resulting in a received super-block;

instructions for parsing the received super-block into a predetermined number of parsed blocks;

and instructions for determining a single average block from the predetermined number of parsed blocks.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18 , further comprising instructions for pulse-shaping filtering the phase-ramped super-block.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 18 , further comprising instructions for transmitting the phase-ramped super-block at an antenna array wherein the phase-ramped super-block is a probe signal.

21. A tangible computer-readable medium having non-transitory computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations, the instructions comprising:

instructions for grouping data into a block of symbols, and repeating the block of symbols a predetermined number of times to form a repetition-encoded super-block;

instructions for selecting a phase ramp sequence from a set of phase ramp sequences;

instructions for multiplying the repetition-encoded super-blockby the phase ramp sequence resulting in a sequence;

instructions for adding a symbol prefix at the beginning of the sequence resulting in a phase-ramped super-block; and

instructions for transmitting the phase-ramped super-block.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the set of phase ramp sequences contains a predetermined number of phase ramp sequences.

23. A tangible computer-readable medium having non-transitory computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations, the instructions comprising:

instructions for receiving a received phase-ramped super-block having a symbol prefix;

instructions for discarding the symbol prefix resulting in a received sequence;

instructions for de-ramping the received sequence into a received super-block;

instructions for parsing the received super-block into a predetermined number of parsed blocks; and

instructions for determining a single average block from the predetermined number of parsed blocks.

24. The computer-readable medium of claim 23 , further comprising instructions for processing the received phase-ramped super-block in the time domain.