Frequency division multiplexing system with selectable rate

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PATENT NO 8665696
APP PUB NO 20120163511A1
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13355851

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An OFDM system uses a normal mode which has a symbol length T, a guard time TG and a set of N sub-carriers, which are orthogonal over the time T, and one or more fallback modes which have symbol lengths KT and guard times KTG where K is an integer greater than unity. The same set of N sub-carriers is used for the fallback modes as for the normal mode. Since the same set of sub-carriers is used, the overall bandwidth is substantially constant, so alias filtering does not need to be adaptive. The Fourier transform operations are the same as for the normal mode. Thus fallback modes are provided with little hardware cost. In the fallback modes the increased guard time provides better delay spread tolerance and the increased symbol length provides improved signal to noise performance, and thus increased range, at the cost of reduced data rate.

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CONVERSANT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC11 HINES RD SUITE 203 OTTAWA ONTARIO K2K2X1

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van, Nee D J Richard De Meern, NL 37 648

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