Patent ID: 6834043
Filing Date: 2004-12-21
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
A method of operating a communication system including at least two transmitting antennas and at least one receive antenna comprising:encoding a plurality of symbols across the at least two transmitting antennas during a coding interval; receiving data at each receive antenna and at each symbol of the coding interval; providing a plurality of channel gain estimates between each transmit antenna and each receive antenna at each symbol of the coding interval; and determining an estimate of transmitted symbols based on the channel gain estimates and the received data at each receive antenna at each symbol of the coding interval, wherein the step of determining comprise the steps of computing a set of weighting coefficients based on the provided channel gain estimates; and computing an estimate of transmitted symbols based on the set of weighting coefficients and the received data at each receive antenna at each symbol of the coding interval.