Patent ID: 8059732
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication system comprising: one or more terminals; and at least two base stations wirelessly communicating information-bearing signals, using coding systems, from a set of antenna elements distributed over multiple, non-collocated base stations to the one or more terminals, such that at least one antenna element of the set of antenna elements is located at each of the at least two base stations, wherein at least one of the coding systems employs a concatenation of an outer binary code, bit interleaved coded modulation, and an induced OFDM-type space-time block code to code one of the information-bearing signals, and wherein the space-time block code is created by systematic transformations of elements of an associated baseline code, where the systematic transformations replace information-bearing symbols in a baseline code matrix representing the baseline code with a vector of information-bearing symbols in an induced code matrix representing the space-time block code.