EARLY LINK DETECTION BASED ADAPTIVE SELECTION OF RECEIVE PARAMETERS

An example method may include receiving a pre-payload portion of a packet at a receiver node. A link associated with a sender node of the packet may be identified based on the pre-payload portion. One or more baseband receive parameters associated with the identified link may be selected and loaded at the receiver node. A payload of the packet may be received at the receiver node using the selected baseband receive parameters. Another example method may include detecting arrival of a packet at a receiver node by detecting OTA energy using at least one of multiple antenna sectors. One or more RF receive parameters of the receiver node may be selected based on information included in or determined from the pre-payload portion of the packet. A payload of the packet may be received at the receiver node using the selected RF receive parameters of the receiver node.