A communication apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) circuit configured to operate on an RF signal, and a digital processing circuit that is coupled to the RF circuit. The digital processing circuit may operate in association with the RF circuit according to a time domain isolation technique. In addition, the digital processing circuit includes a scheduler that may schedule a channel equalization task for each of one or more respective receive time slots. The scheduler may also schedule a decode task to obtain slot allocation information for each of the one or more respective receive time slots.