Patent ID: 9548851
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of receiving data in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system, comprising: obtaining, from a plurality of receive antennas at a receiving entity, a plurality of received symbol streams for a plurality of data symbol streams sent by a plurality of transmitting entities, one data symbol stream for each transmitting entity; evaluating each of a plurality of sets of transmitting entities for possible transmission based on a metric and steering vectors for the transmitting entities in the set; and selecting a set of transmitting entities with a highest value of the metric for transmission, wherein the selected set of transmitting entities comprises the plurality of transmitting entities, wherein the data symbol stream for each transmitting entity is spatially processed with a steering vector derived independently for the transmitting entity and is sent from a plurality of transmit antennas at the transmitting entity, and wherein the plurality of data symbol streams are transmitted simultaneously by the plurality of transmitting entities.