Asymmetric ping-pong communication system

摘要

A data communication system (100,120,140) includes a novel transceiver (100) which uses different transmit and receive data symbol lengths enabling the transceiver to operate in a full-duplex mode. The transceiver transmits data (101) of a first type over a communication link (120) during a first time period, and receives data (113) of a second type over the link during a second time period which is longer than the first time period and which overlaps a portion of the first time period. In one embodiment, the transceiver switches (107) a transmitting means (103) to the link (120) during the first time period and connects a receiving means (112) to the link (120) during a portion of the second time period which does not overlap the first time period. <IMAGE>