Patent ID: 6603809
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a radio communication system having a sending station and a receiving station connected by way of a communication channel susceptible to fading, the sending station for sending data upon the communication channel to the receiving station, an improvement of a modulator for the sending station, said modulator comprising:a mapper coupled to receive a group of encoder output symbols, the encoder output symbols encoded representations of the data to be communicated upon the communication channel, said mapper for mapping the group of encoder output symbols to at least a first sequence of modulator output symbols, the at least first sequence formed of at least one symbol, and the at least first sequence forming a codeword, such that a Hermitian of a difference matrix formed between an arbitrary pair of codewords multiplied by the difference matrix forms a diagonal product matrix having a diagonal with all diagonal elements of the diagonal equal to each other.