Apparatus, system and method of communicating a single carrier (SC) transmission

A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a Single Carrier (SC) Physical Layer (PHY) transmitter to:

• encode data of a PHY Service Data Unit (PSDU) into encoded bits according to a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code;
• distribute the encoded bits to a plurality of spatial streams;
• map the encoded bits in the plurality of spatial streams to constellation symbols in the plurality of spatial streams;
• encode the constellation symbols in the plurality of spatial streams into a plurality of space-time streams according to a space-time block code;
• insert Guard Interval (GI) sequences into the plurality of space-time streams, inserting the GI sequences comprises inserting a GI sequence of the GI sequences into a respective space-time stream of the plurality of space-time streams by prepending each SC symbol block of a plurality of SC symbol blocks in the space-time stream with the GI sequence;
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• map the plurality of space-time streams, which comprise the GI sequences, to a plurality of transmit chains.

An apparatus comprising:

• means for causing a Single Carrier (SC) Physical Layer (PHY) transmitter to encode data of a PHY Service Data Unit (PSDU) into encoded bits according to a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code;
• means for causing the SC PHY transmitter to distribute the encoded bits to a plurality of spatial streams;
• means for causing the SC PHY transmitter to map the encoded bits in the plurality of spatial streams to constellation symbols in the plurality of spatial streams;
• means for causing the SC PHY transmitter to encode the constellation symbols in the plurality of spatial streams into a plurality of space-time streams according to a space-time block code;
• means for causing the SC PHY transmitter to insert Guard Interval (GI) sequences into the plurality of space-time streams, inserting the GI sequences comprises inserting a GI sequence of the GI sequences into a respective space-time stream of the plurality of space-time streams by prepending each SC symbol block of a plurality of SC symbol blocks in the space-time stream with the GI sequence;
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• means for causing the SC PHY transmitter to map the plurality of space-time streams, which comprise the GI sequences, to a plurality of transmit chains.