USING THE PREAMBLE IN AN OFDM-BASED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM TO INDICATE THE NUMBER OF GUARD TONES

摘要

Indicating the number of guard tones on the preamble frames is described for an OFDM or ODFMA based wireless communication system. The information of the number of guard tones or the range of the number of guard tones used on certain channels is indicated before the mobile station demodulates those channels. The mobile station uses this information to minimize the loss of modulation symbols when decoding those channels.