Apparatus, system and method of communicating a single carrier (SC) transmission

1. An apparatus of a single User (SU) single Carrier (SC) Physical Layer (PHY) transmitter, the apparatus comprising:

a spatial stream parser to distribute encoded bits of a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Service Data Unit (PSDU) to a plurality of spatial streams;

a plurality of constellation mappers to map encoded bits of the plurality of spatial streams into a respective plurality of streams of constellation symbols according to a constellation scheme;

a Space Time Block Code (STBC) encoder to encode the plurality of streams of constellation symbols into SC symbol blocks over a plurality of space-time streams;

a plurality of Guard Interval (GI) inserters to insert GI sequences to the SC symbol blocks over the plurality of space-time streams by prepending each SC symbol block of the SC symbol blocks with a GI sequence; and

a transmit chain mapper to map the plurality of space-time streams, after insertion of the GI sequences by the GI inserters, to a plurality of transmit chains.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising an encoder to generate the encoded bits of the PSDU according to a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the encoder is to encode the PSDU into an LDPC codeword (CW) comprising a short CW or a long CW, the short CW comprising 672 or 624 bits, and the long CW comprising 1344 or 1248 bits.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said GI sequence has a GI length of 32, 64 or 128 samples.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a plurality of interleavers to interleave symbols of respective ones of the plurality of streams of constellation symbols, an interleaver corresponding to a stream of constellation symbols of the plurality of streams of constellation symbols to interleave, on a symbol basis, symbols of an SC symbol block of the stream of constellation symbols.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of spatial streams have a same Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS).

7. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to transmit an SC transmission over a bonded or an aggregated channel comprising a plurality of channels.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of spatial streams comprises no more than 8 spatial streams.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a count of the plurality of space-time streams is double a count of the plurality of spatial streams.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of space-time streams comprises no more than 8 space-time streams.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to transmit a SC transmission via the plurality of transmit chains over a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) band.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising one or more antennas, a memory, and a processor.

13. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a transmitter of a wireless station to:

distribute encoded bits of a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Service Data Unit (PSDU) to a plurality of spatial streams;

map encoded bits of the plurality of spatial streams into a respective plurality of streams of constellation symbols according to a constellation scheme;

encode the plurality of streams of constellation symbols into Single Carrier (SC) symbol blocks over a plurality of space-time streams;

insert Guard Interval (GI) sequences to the SC symbol blocks over the plurality of space-time streams by prepending each SC symbol block of the SC symbol blocks with a GI sequence; and

map the plurality of space-time streams, comprising the SC symbol blocks with the GI sequences, to a plurality of transmit chains.

14. The product of claim 13 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the transmitter to generate the encoded bits of the PSDU according to a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code.

15. The product of claim 13 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the transmitter to transmit a SC transmission via the plurality of transmit chains over a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) band.

16. An apparatus of a Multi User (MU) Single Carrier (SC) Physical Layer (PHY) transmitter, the apparatus comprising:

a plurality of processing modules to process a respective plurality of Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Service Data Units (PSDUs) to be transmitted to a respective plurality of users, a processing module to process a PSDU of the plurality of PSDUs comprising:

a spatial stream parser to distribute encoded bits of the PSDU to a plurality of spatial streams;

a plurality of constellation mappers to map encoded bits of the plurality of spatial streams into a respective plurality of streams of constellation symbols according to a constellation scheme;

a Space Time Block Code (STBC) encoder to encode the plurality of streams of constellation symbols into SC symbol blocks over a plurality of space-time streams; and

a plurality of Guard Interval (GI) inserters to insert GI sequences to the SC symbol blocks over the plurality of space-time streams by prepending each SC symbol block of the SC symbol blocks with a GI sequence; and

a transmit chain mapper to map outputs of the plurality of processing modules, after insertion of the GI sequences by the GI inserters, to a plurality of transmit chains.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the processing module comprises an encoder to generate the encoded bits of the PSDU according to a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the encoder is to encode the PSDU into an LDPC codeword (CW) comprising a short CW or a long CW, the short CW comprising 672 or 624 bits, and the long CW comprising 1344 or 1248 bits.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the processing module comprises a plurality of interleavers to interleave symbols of respective ones of the plurality of streams of constellation symbols, an interleaver corresponding to a stream of constellation symbols of the plurality of streams of constellation symbols to interleave, on a symbol basis, symbols of an SC symbol block of the stream of constellation symbols.

20. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the plurality of spatial streams have a same Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS).

21. The apparatus of claim 16 comprising one or more antennas, a memory, and a processor.

22. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a transmitter of a wireless station to:

perform a plurality of processing procedures to process a respective plurality of Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Service Data Units (PSDUs) to be transmitted to a respective plurality of users, performing a processing procedure to process a PSDU of the plurality of PSDUs comprising:

distributing encoded bits of the PSDU to a plurality of spatial streams; mapping encoded bits of the plurality of spatial streams into a respective plurality of streams of constellation symbols according to a constellation scheme;

encoding the plurality of streams of constellation symbols into SC symbol blocks over a plurality of space-time streams according to a Space Time Block Code (STBC) encoding scheme; and

inserting Guard Interval (GI) sequences to the SC symbol blocks over the plurality of space-time streams by prepending each SC symbol block of the SC symbol blocks with a GI sequence; and

map outputs of the plurality of processing procedures, after insertion of the GI sequences, to a plurality of transmit chains.

23. The product of claim 22 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the transmitter to transmit an SC transmission via the plurality of transmit chains over a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) band.