Wireless LAN

Claim 2

A wireless LAN comprising: a plurality of hub transceivers coupled together to constitute a plurality of data sources and destinations; and a plurality of mobile transceivers each coupled to data processing means and between each said data processing means and a corresponding said transceiver data passes to be transmitted or received, said transceivers being for data transceiving operation by radio transmissions to one of said hub receivers in a confined multipath environment, and each transceiver comprising: antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to an output data channel, each said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies in excess of 10 GHz, and said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths.

Claim 3

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 1, wherein said transmission signal processing means further comprises means to provide data reliability enhancement to said input data passed to said modulation means.

Claim 4

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 2, wherein said data reliability enhancement is Forward Error Correction.

Claim 5

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 3, wherein said transmission signal processing means further comprises means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said input data.

Claim 6

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 4, wherein said blocks of said input data are bits.

Claim 7

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 1, wherein said modulation means performs, for each said sub-channel, multi-level amplitude and/or phase modulation (mQAM).

Claim 8

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 6, wherein said mQAM modulation is one of: multi-level amplitude phase shift keying (mASK), permutation modulation, binary phase shift keying (BPSK), multi-level phase shift keying (mPSK) and multi-level amplitude phase keying (mAPK).

Claim 9

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 1, wherein said reception signal processing means comprises demodulation means for demodulating received symbols of said plurality of sub-channels into output data for said output data channel.

Claim 10

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 1, further comprising switching means for selectively coupling said antenna means to said transmission signal processing means for transmission of data and to said reception signal processing means for reception of data.

Claim 11

A wireless LAN comprising: a plurality of hub transceivers coupled together to constitute a plurality of data sources and destinations; and a plurality of mobile transceivers each coupled to data processing means and between each said data processing means and a corresponding said transceiver data passes to be transmitted or received, said transceivers being for data transceiving operation by radio transmissions to one of said hub receivers in a confined multipath environment, and each transceiver comprising: antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to a input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to a output data channel, each said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies, said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths, means to apply a data reliability enhancement to said data passed to said modulation means and means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said ensemble modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said data.

Claim 12

A wireless LAN comprising: a plurality of hub transceivers coupled together to constitute a plurality of data sources and destinations; and a plurality of mobile transceivers each coupled to data processing means and between each said data processing means and a corresponding said transceiver data passes to be transmitted or received, said transceivers being for data transceiving operation by radio transmissions to one of said hub receivers in a confined multipath environment, and each transceiver comprising: antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to a input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to a output data channel, each said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies, said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths, means to apply a data reliability enhancement to said data passed to said modulation means and means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said ensemble modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said data.

Claim 13

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 10, wherein said data reliability enhancement is Forward Error Correction.

Claim 14

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 11, wherein said blocks of said input data are bits.

Claim 15

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 10, wherein said modulation means performs, for each said sub-channel, multi-level amplitude and/or phase modulation (mQAM).

Claim 16

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 13, wherein said mQAM modulation is one of: multi-level amplitude phase shift keying (mASK), permutation modulation, binary phase shift keying (BPSK), multi-level phase shift keying (mPSK) and multi-level amplitude phase keying (mAPK).

Claim 17

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 10, wherein said reception signal processing means comprises demodulation means for demodulating received symbols of said plurality of sub-channels into output data for said output data channel.

Claim 18

A wireless LAN as claimed in claim 10, further comprising switching means for selectively coupling said antenna means to said transmission signal processing means for transmission of data and to said reception signal processing means for reception of data.

Claim 19

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN comprising: a plurality of mobile transceivers for data transceiving operation by radio transmissions between ones thereof in a confined multipath environment, each said transceiver being coupled to a data processing means, and between each said data processing means and a corresponding said transceiver data passes to be transmitted or received, each said transceiver comprising: antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to an output data channel, each said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies in excess of 10 GHz, and said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths.

Claim 20

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN comprising: a plurality of mobile transceivers for data transceiving operation by radio transmissions between ones thereof in a confined multipath environment, each said transceiver being coupled to a data processing means, and between each said data processing means and a corresponding said transceiver data passes to be transmitted or received, each said transceiver comprising: antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to an output data channel, each said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies in excess of 10 GHz, and said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths.

Claim 21

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN as claimed in claim 17, wherein said transmission signal processing means further comprises means to provide data reliability enhancement to said input data passed to said modulation means.

Claim 22

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN as claimed in claim 18, wherein said data reliability enhancement is Forward Error Correction.

Claim 23

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN as claimed in claim 19, wherein said transmission signal processing means further comprises means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said input data.

Claim 24

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN as claimed in claim 20, wherein said blocks of said data are bits.

Claim 25

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN as claimed in claim 17, wherein said modulation means performs, for each said sub-channel, multi-level amplitude and/or phase modulation (mQAM).

Claim 26

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN as claimed in claim 22, wherein said mQAM modulation is one of: multi-level amplitude phase shift keying (mASK), permutation modulation, binary phase shift keying (BPSK), multi-level phase shift keying (mPSK) and multi-level amplitude phase keying (mAPK).

Claim 27

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN as claimed in claim 17, wherein said reception signal processing means comprises demodulation means for demodulating received symbols of said plurality of sub-channels into output data for said output data channel.

Claim 28

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN as claimed in claim 17, further comprising switching means for selectively coupling said antenna means to said transmission signal processing means for transmission of data and to said reception signal processing means for reception of data.

Claim 29

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN comprising: a plurality of mobile transceivers for data transceiving operation by radio transmissions between ones thereof in a confined multipath environment, each said transceiver being coupled to a data processing means, and between each said data processing means and a corresponding said transceiver data passes to be transmitted or received, each said transceiver comprising: antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to an output data channel, each said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies, said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths, means to apply data reliability enhancement to said data passed to said ensemble modulation means and means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said ensemble modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said data.

Claim 30

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN comprising: a plurality of mobile transceivers for data transceiving operation by radio transmissions between ones thereof in a confined multipath environment, each said transceiver being coupled to a data processing means, and between each said data processing means and a corresponding said transceiver data passes to be transmitted or received, each said transceiver comprising: antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to an output data channel, each said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies, said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths, means to apply data reliability enhancement to said data passed to said ensemble modulation means and means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said ensemble modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said data.

Claim 31

A peer-to-peer LAN as claimed in claim 26, wherein said data reliability enhancement is Forward Error Correction.

Claim 32

A peer-to-peer LAN as claimed in claim 27, wherein said blocks of said input data are bits.

Claim 33

A peer-to-peer LAN as claimed in claim 26, wherein said modulation means performs, for each said sub-channel, multi-level amplitude and/or phase modulation (mQAM).

Claim 34

A peer-to-peer LAN as claimed in claim 29, wherein said mQAM modulation is one of: multi-level amplitude phase shift keying (mASK), permutation modulation, binary phase shift keying (BPSK), multi-level phase shift keying (mPSK) and multi-level amplitude phase keying (mAPK).

Claim 35

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN as claimed in claim 26, wherein said reception signal processing means comprises demodulation means for demodulating received symbols of said plurality of sub-channels into output data for said output data channel.

Claim 36

A peer-to-peer wireless LAN as claimed in claim 26, further comprising switching means for selectively coupling said antenna means to said transmission signal processing means for transmission of data and to said reception signal processing means for reception of data.

Claim 37

A transceiver for operation in a confined multipath transmission environment, said transceiver comprising antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to an output data channel, said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies in excess of 10 GHz, and said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths.

Claim 38

A transceiver for operation in a confined multipath transmission environment, said transceiver comprising antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to an output data channel, said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies in excess of 10 GHz, and said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths.

Claim 39

A transceiver as claimed in claim 33, wherein said transmission signal processing means further comprises means to provide data reliability enhancement to said input data passed to said modulation means.

Claim 40

A transceiver as claimed in claim 34, wherein said data reliability enhancement is Forward Error Correction.

Claim 41

A transceiver as claimed in claim 35, wherein said transmission signal processing means further comprises means, interposed between said input data reliability enhancement means and said modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said data.

Claim 42

A transceiver as claimed in claim 36, wherein said blocks of said data are bits.

Claim 43

A transceiver as claimed in claim 33, wherein said modulation means performs, for each said sub-channel, multi-level amplitude and/or phase modulation (mQAM).

Claim 44

A transceiver as claimed in claim 38, wherein said mQAM modulation is one of: multi-level amplitude phase shift keying (mASK), permutation modulation, binary phase shift keying (BPSK), multi-level phase shift keying (mPSK) and multi-level amplitude phase keying (mAPK).

Claim 45

A transceiver as claimed in claim 33, wherein said reception signal processing means comprises demodulation means for demodulating received symbols of said plurality of sub-channels into output data for said output data channel.

Claim 46

A transceiver as claimed in claim 33, further comprising switching means for selectively coupling said antenna means to said transmission signal processing means for transmission of data and to said reception signal processing means for reception of data.

Claim 47

A transceiver for operation in a confined multipath transmission environment, said transceiver comprising antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to an output data channel, said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies, said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths, means to apply data reliability enhancement to said data passed to said modulation means and means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said data.

Claim 48

A transceiver for operation in a confined multipath transmission environment, said transceiver comprising antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means and to reception signal processing means, said transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, and said reception signal processing means in turn coupled to an output data channel, said transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data at radio frequencies, said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths, means to apply data reliability enhancement to said data passed to said modulation means and means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said data.

Claim 49

A transceiver as claimed in claim 42, wherein said data reliability enhancement is Forward Error Correction.

Claim 50

A transceiver as claimed in claim 43, wherein said blocks of said input data are bits.

Claim 51

A transceiver as claimed in claim 42, wherein said modulation means performs, for each said sub-channel, multi-level amplitude and/or phase modulation (mQAM).

Claim 52

A transceiver as claimed in claim 45, wherein said mQAM modulation is one of: multi-level amplitude phase shift keying (mASK), permutation modulation, binary phase shift keying (BPSK), multi-level phase shift keying (mPSK) and multi-level amplitude phase keying (mAPK).

Claim 53

A transceiver as claimed in claim 42, wherein said reception signal processing means comprises ensemble demodulation means for demodulating received symbols of said plurality of sub-channels into data for said output data channel.

Claim 54

A transceiver as claimed in claim 42, further comprising switching means for selectively coupling said antenna means to said transmission signal processing means for transmission of data and to said reception signal processing means for reception of data.

Claim 55

A transmitter for operation in a confined multipath transmission environment, said transmitter comprising antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, said transmitter being operable to transmit data at radio frequencies in excess of 10 GHz, and said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths.

Claim 56

A transmitter for operation in a confined multipath transmission environment, said transmitter comprising antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, said transmitter being operable to transmit data at radio frequencies in excess of 10 GHz, and said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths.

Claim 57

A transmitter as claimed in claim 49, wherein said transmission signal processing means further comprises means to provide data reliability enhancement to said data passed to said modulation means.

Claim 58

A transmitter as claimed in claim 50, wherein said data reliability enhancement is Forward Error Correction.

Claim 59

A transmitter as claimed in claim 51, wherein said transmission signal processing means further comprises means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said data.

Claim 60

A transmitter as claimed in claim 52, wherein said blocks of said input data are bits.

Claim 61

A transmitter as claimed in claim 49, wherein said modulation means performs, for each said sub-channel, multi-level amplitude and/or phase modulation (mQAM).

Claim 62

A transmitter as claimed in claim 54, wherein said mQAM modulation is one of: multi-level amplitude phase shift keying (mASK), permutation modulation, binary phase shift keying (BPSK), multi-level phase shift keying (mPSK) and multi-level amplitude phase keying (mAPK).

Claim 63

A transmitter for operation in a confined multipath transmission environment, said transmitter comprising antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, said transmitter being operable to transmit data at radio frequencies, said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths, means to apply data reliability enhancement to said data passed to said modulation means and means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said data.

Claim 64

A transmitter for operation in a confined multipath transmission environment, said transmitter comprising antenna means coupled to transmission signal processing means in turn coupled to an input data channel, said transmitter being operable to transmit data at radio frequencies, said transmission signal processing means comprising modulation means for modulating input data of said input data channel into a plurality of sub-channels comprised of a sequence of data symbols such that the period of a sub-channel symbol is longer than a predetermined period representative of the time delay of significant ones of non-direct transmission paths, means to apply data reliability enhancement to said data passed to said modulation means and means, interposed between said data reliability enhancement means and said modulation means, for interleaving blocks of said data.

Claim 65

A transmitter as claimed in claim 56, wherein said data reliability enhancement is Forward Error Correction.

Claim 66

A transmitter as claimed in claim 57, wherein said blocks of said input data are bits.

Claim 67

A transmitter as claimed in claim 56, wherein said modulation means performs, for each said sub-channel, multi-level amplitude and/or phase modulation (mQAM).

Claim 68

A transmitter as claimed in claim 59, wherein said mQAM modulation is one of: multi-level amplitude phase shift keying (mASK), permutation modulation, binary phase shift keying (BPSK), multi-level phase shift keying (mPSK) and multi-level amplitude phase keying (mAPK).

Claim 71

A method as claimed in claim 61, comprising the further step of providing data reliability enhancement to said data in advance of said modulation step.

Claim 72

A method as claimed in claim 62, wherein said data reliability enhancement is Forward Error Correction.

Claim 73

A method as claimed in claim 63, comprising the further step of interleaving blocks of said input data between the steps of providing data reliability enhancement monitoring and step of modulation.

Claim 74

A method as claimed in claim 64, wherein said blocks of input data are bits.

Claim 75

A method as claimed in claim 61, wherein said step of modulation is multi-level amplitude and/or phase modulation (mQAM).

Claim 76

A method as claimed in claim 66, wherein said mQAM modulation is one of: multi-level amplitude phase shift keying (mASK), permutation modulation, binary phase shift keying (BPSK), multi-level phase shift keying (mPSK) and multi-level amplitude phase keying (mAPK).

Claim 79

A method as claimed in claim 68, wherein said data reliability enhancement is Forward Error Correction.

Claim 80

A method as claimed in claim 69, wherein said blocks of input data are bits.

Claim 81

A method as claimed in claim 68, wherein said steps of modulation is multi-level amplitude and/or phase modulation (mQAM).

Claim 82

A method as claimed in claim 71, wherein said mQAM modulation is one of: multi-level amplitude phase shift keying (mASK), permutation modulation, binary phase shift keying (BPSK), multi-level phase shift keying (mPSK) and multi-level amplitude phase keying (mAPK).