Manchester Encoded On-Off Keying Transmissions for Wake-Up Protocol

In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a baseband processor comprising: a packet generation circuit to generate a wake-up packet comprising information to cause a first receiver to trigger a wake-up of a second receiver; an encoder to encode the wake-up packet with Manchester encoding to output Manchester encoded on-off keying (MOOK) data; and a modulator coupled to the encoder to receive random data and modulate the random data. This modulated random data may be amplitude modulated with the MOOK data to realize a radio frequency (RF) signal comprising the MOOK data that is to be transmitted to one or more receivers.