EP1594244A2

Reduced latency concatenated reed solomon-convolutional coding for mimo wireless LAN

Abstract

A wireless local area network (WLAN) transmitter includes a baseband processing module and a plurality of radio frequency (RF) transmitters. The baseband processing module operably coupled to scramble data in accordance with a pseudo random sequence to produce scrambled data. The baseband processing module is further operably coupled to interleave, at a word level, the scrambled data to produce interleaved data when the interleaving is enabled. The baseband processing module is further operably coupled to outer Reed-Solomon encode the scrambled data or the interleaved data to produce outer encoded data when the outer Reed-Solomon encoding is enabled. The baseband processing module is further operably coupled to inner puncture convolution encode the outer encoded data or the scrambled data to produce the encoded data. The baseband processing module is further operably coupled to determine a number of transmit streams based on a mode selection signal. The baseband processing module is further operably coupled to convert the encoded data into streams of symbols in accordance with the number of transmit streams and the mode selection signal. The plurality of radio frequency (RF) transmitters, when enabled, converts the streams of symbols into a corresponding number of RF signals.

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10 claims: 2 independent, 8 dependent

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    A wireless local area network (WLAN) transmitter having high data throughput, the WLAN transmitter comprises:a baseband processing module operably coupled to: scramble data in accordance with a pseudo random sequence to produce scrambled data;interleave, at a word level, the scrambled data to produce interleaved data when the interleaving is enabled;outer Reed-Solomon encode the scrambled data or the interleaved data to produce outer encoded data when the outer Reed-Solomon encoding is enabled;inner puncture convolution encode the outer encoded data or the scrambled data to produce the encoded data;determine a number of transmit streams based on a mode selection signal;and convert the encoded data into streams of symbols in accordance with the number of transmit streams and the mode selection signal;and a plurality of radio frequency (RF) transmitters, wherein, based on the mode selection signal, a number of the plurality of RF transmitters are enabled, wherein each of the number of plurality of RF transmitters that are enabled converts a corresponding one of the streams of symbols into a corresponding RF signal such that a corresponding number of RF signals is produced.
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    A wireless local area network (WLAN) receiver having high data throughput, the WLAN transmitter comprises:a plurality of radio frequency (RF) receivers, wherein, based on the mode selection signal, a number of the plurality of RF receives are enabled, wherein each of the number of plurality of RF receivers that are enabled converts a corresponding one of a plurality of received RF signals into a corresponding stream of symbols such that a corresponding number of streams of symbols is produced;and a baseband processing module operably coupled to: combine the steams of symbols into a single stream of symbols;inner puncture convolution decode the single stream of symbols to produce inner punctured decoded data;outer Reed-Solomon decode, when enabled, the inner punctured decoded data to produce outer decoded data;deinterleave, at a word level, the outer decoded data to produce deinterleaved data when the deinterleaving is enabled;and descramble the inner punctured decoded data, the outer decoded data, or the deinterleaved data to produce inbound data.