This disclosure describes methods and systems for transmitting high efficiency long training field (HE-LTF) symbols for multiple transmission streams. Specifically, various methods for accommodating increasing numbers of transmitted spatial streams based on an advanced P-matrix design, tone multiplexing for spatial streams, and a combination thereof are described herein.
With techniques such as massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) or millimeter wave being proposed to address the increasing demand for more data at higher speeds, in comparison to systems implemented under the soon to be completed IEEE 802.11ax standard, an access point (AP) in a wireless communications system compliant with emerging will need to initiate a larger number of transmission streams in order to serve many more user devices. With increasing number of transmission streams, the size of the P-matrix—a training matrix for channel estimation that is defined for various matrix sizes in the IEEE 802.11ax standard, used in high efficiency long training field (HE-LTF) symbol generation—will also increase.