Efficient physical layer preamble format

1. A transmitter device comprising:

a controller configured to

generate a first field, wherein the first field is at least one of a packet synchronization information field or a frame boundary indication field, and

generate a second field, wherein the second field is a channel estimation field starting after the first field ends, and wherein the controller is configured to generate the second field at least in part by

generating a first channel estimation sequence (CES) symbol, and

generating a second CES symbol;

wherein at least one of i) a sequence in the first field serves as a cyclic prefix of the first CES symbol, ii) a beginning portion of the second CES symbol serves as a cyclic postfix of the first CES symbol, or iii) an ending portion of the first CES symbol serves as a cyclic prefix of the second CES symbol.

2. The transmitter device of claim 1 , wherein:

the first CES symbol includes a first sequence and a second sequence augmented by a first set of cover codes; and

the second CES symbol includes the first sequence and the second sequence augmented by a second set of cover codes.

3. The transmitter device of claim 2 , wherein the first sequence and the second sequence are complementary Golay sequences.

4. The transmitter device of claim 1 , wherein:

the first CES symbol includes a first sequence and a second sequence such that a sum of out-of-phase aperiodic autocorrelation coefficients of the first sequence and the second sequence is zero; and

the controller is configured to generate the first field at least in part by using a third sequence independent of each of the first sequence and the second sequence.

5. The transmitter device of claim 1 , wherein the first CES symbol and the second CES symbol are complementary Golay sequences.

6. The transmitter device of claim 1 , wherein:

the first field includes a repeating first sequence;

a beginning of the second field occurs immediately after an end of the first field;

a beginning of the first CES symbol is the beginning of the second field and includes a second sequence; and

the first sequence and the second sequence are complementary sequences such that a sum of out-of-phase aperiodic autocorrelation coefficients of the first sequence and the second sequence is zero.

7. The transmitter device of claim 1 , wherein:

the first CES symbol is u consistent with the format u=[c 1 a c 2 b c 3 a c 4 b];

the second CES symbol is v consistent with the format v=[c 5 a c 6 b c 6 a c 8 b];

a is a first Golay spreading sequence;

b is a second Golay spreading sequence complementary to a;

each of c 1 , c 2 , c 3 , c 4 , c 5 , c 6 , c 7 , and c 8 is +1 or −1;

c 4 =c 8 ; and

u and v are complementary Golay sequences.

8. The transmitter device of claim 7 , wherein c 1 =c 5 .

9. The transmitter device of claim 1 , wherein:

the first CES symbol is one of u 1 consistent with the format u 1 =[c 1 b c 2 a c 3 b c 4 a] or u 2 consistent with the format u 2 =[d 1 a d 2 b d 3 a d 4 b];

the second CES symbol is one of v 1 consistent with the format v 1 =[c 5 b c 6 a c 7 b c 8 a] or v 2 consistent with the format v 2 =[d 5 a d 6 b d 7 a d 8 b];

a is a first Golay spreading sequence;

b is a second Golay spreading sequence complementary to a;

each of c 1 , c 2 , c 3 , c 4 , c 5 , c 6 , c 7 , and c 8 is +1 or −1;

c 4 =c 8 ;

each of d 1 , d 2 , d 3 , d 4 , d 5 , d 6 , d 7 , and d 8 is +1 or −1;

d 4 =d 8 ;

the first field includes a plurality of repeating a sequences, and the second field includes u 1 prior to v 1 , to indicate a first communication mode;

the first field includes a plurality of repeating b sequences, and the second field includes u 2 prior to v 2 , to indicate a second communication mode.

10. The transmitter device of claim 9 , wherein the first communication mode is one of a single carrier (SC) mode or an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) mode and the second communication mode is the other one of the SC mode or the OFDM mode.

11. The transmitter device of claim 9 , wherein c 1 =c 5 and d 1 =d 5 .

12. The transmitter device of claim 1 , wherein:

the first CES symbol is one of u 1 consistent with the format u 1 =[c 1 b c 2 a c 3 b c 4 a] or u 2 consistent with the format u 2 =m [c 2 a c 3 b c 4 a c 1 b];

a is a first Golay sequence;

b is a second Golay sequence complementary to a;

each of c 1 , c 2 , c 3 , c 4 , c 5 , c 6 , c 6 , and c 8 is +1 or −1;

c 4 =c 8 ;

the second CES symbol is one of v 1 consistent with the format v 1 =[c 5 b c 6 a c 7 b c 8 a] or v 2 consistent with the format v 2 =m [c 6 a c 7 b c 8 a c 5 b];

m is +1 or −1;

the first field includes a plurality of repeating a sequences, and the second field includes u 1 prior to v 1 , to indicate a first communication mode; and

the first field includes a plurality of repeating b sequences, and the second field includes u 2 prior to v 2 , to indicate a second communication mode.

13. The transmitter device of claim 1 , wherein:

the first CES symbol includes a first sequence and a second sequence;

each of the first sequence and the second sequence is a 128-chip Golay spreading sequence associated with a weight vector W and a delay vector D;

W=[1 1 −1 1 −1 1 −1]; and

D is one of [1 2 4 8 16 32 64], [64 16 32 1 8 2 4], or [64 32 16 8 4 2 1].

14. The transmitter device of claim 1 , further comprising:

a modulator configured to modulate a preamble including the first field and the second field according to a modulation scheme.

15. A receiver device comprising:

a processor configured to

obtain at least one of (i) synchronization information, or (ii) a frame start indication, based on a portion of a received signal corresponding to a first field of a preamble; and

obtain channel estimation information using a portion of the received signal corresponding to a second field of the preamble, wherein the second field starts after the first field ends, and wherein the processor is configured to obtain the channel estimation information at least in part by

detecting a first channel estimation (CES) symbol in the second field, and

detecting a second CES symbol;

wherein at least one of i) an ending portion of the first field serves as a cyclic prefix of the first CES symbol, ii) a beginning portion of the second CES symbol serves as a cyclic postfix of the first CES symbol, or iii) an ending portion of the first CES symbol serves as a cyclic prefix of the second CES symbol.

16. The receiver device of claim 15 , wherein detecting the first CES symbol comprises correlating each of (i) the ending portion of the first field and (ii) the second field with a pair of complementary Golay sequences.

17. The receiver device of claim 15 , wherein the ending portion of the first CES symbol serves as a cyclic prefix of the second CES symbol.

18. The receiver device of claim 15 , wherein:

the first CES symbol is u consistent with the format u=[c 1 a c 2 b c 3 a c 4 b];

the second CES symbol is v consistent with the format v=[c 5 a c 6 b c 6 a c 8 b];

a is a first Golay spreading sequence;

b is a second Golay spreading sequence complementary to a;

each of c 1 , c 2 , c 3 , c 4 , c 5 , c 6 , c 7 , and c 8 is +1 or −1;

c 4 =c 8 ; and

u and v are complementary Golay sequences.

19. The receiver device of claim 18 , wherein the first field includes a Golay spreading sequence independent of each of (i) the first Golay spreading sequence a and (ii) the second Golay spreading sequence b.

20. The receiver device of claim 18 , wherein the first field includes a Golay spreading sequence corresponding to one of (i) the first Golay spreading sequence a cyclically shifted by one or more positions, or (ii) the second Golay spreading sequence b cyclically shifted by one or more positions.

21. A transmitter device comprising:

a controller configured to

generate a first field, wherein the first field is at least one of a packet synchronization information field or a frame boundary indication field, and

generate a second field, wherein the second field is a channel estimation field starting after the first field ends, and wherein the controller is configured to generate the second field at least in part by

generating a first channel estimation sequence (CES) symbol, and

generating a second CES symbol;

wherein a sequence in the first field serves as a cyclic prefix of the first CES symbol, a beginning portion of the second CES symbol serves as a cyclic postfix of the first CES symbol, and an ending portion of the first CES symbol serves as a cyclic prefix of the second CES symbol.

22. The transmitter device of claim 21 , wherein:

the first CES symbol includes a first sequence and a second sequence augmented by a first set of cover codes;

the second CES symbol includes the first sequence and the second sequence augmented by a second set of cover codes;

the first sequence and the second sequence are complementary Golay sequences; and

the first CES symbol and the second CES symbol are complementary Golay sequences.

23. The transmitter device of claim 22 , wherein:

the first field includes a repeating first sequence;

a beginning of the second field occurs immediately after an end of the first field; and

a beginning of the first CES symbol is the beginning of the second field.

24. The transmitter device of claim 23 , wherein:

the first CES symbol is u consistent with the format u=[c 1 b c 2 a c 3 b c 4 a];

the second CES symbol is v consistent with the format v=[c 5 b c 6 a c 7 b c 8 a];

a is the first sequence;

b is the second sequence;

each of c 1 , c 2 , c 3 , c 4 , c 5 , c 6 , c 7 , and c 8 is +1 or −1;

c 1 =c 5 ;

c 4 =c 8 ;

the first field includes a plurality of repeating a sequences;

the second field includes u prior to v to indicate a single carrier (SC) mode; and

the second field includes v prior to u to indicate an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) mode.

25. A receiver device comprising:

a processor configured to

obtain at least one of (i) synchronization information, or (ii) a frame start indication, based on a portion of a received signal corresponding to a first field of a preamble; and

obtain channel estimation information using a portion of the received signal corresponding to a second field of the preamble, wherein the second field starts after the first field ends, and wherein the processor is configured to obtain the channel estimation information at least in part by

detecting a first channel estimation (CES) symbol in the second field, and

detecting a second CES symbol;

wherein an ending portion of the first field serves as a cyclic prefix of the first CES symbol, a beginning portion of the second CES symbol serves as a cyclic postfix of the first CES symbol, and an ending portion of the first CES symbol serves as a cyclic prefix of the second CES symbol.

26. The receiver device of claim 25 , wherein detecting the first CES symbol comprises correlating each of (i) the ending portion of the first field and (ii) the second field with a pair of complementary Golay sequences.

27. The receiver device of claim 25 , wherein:

the ending portion of the first CES symbol serves as a cyclic prefix of the second CES symbol;

the first CES symbol is u consistent with the format u=[c 1 b c 2 a c 3 b c 4 a];

the second CES symbol is v consistent with the format v=[c 5 b c 6 a c 7 b c 8 a];

a is a first Golay spreading sequence;

b is a second Golay spreading sequence complementary to a;

each of c 1 , c 2 , c 3 , c 4 , c 5 , c 6 , c 7 , and c 8 is +1 or −1;

c 1 =c 5 ;

c 4 =c 8 ;

u and v are complementary Golay sequences;

the first field includes a plurality of repeating a sequences;

the second field includes u prior to v to indicate a single carrier (SC) mode;

the second field includes v prior to u to indicate an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) mode.