Patent ID: 8090053
Filing Date: 2012-01-03
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating with a mobile terminal from a network element of a mobile radio network, the network element and the mobile terminal each including a first antenna and a second antenna, the method comprising: identifying the first and the second antennas of the network element; determining the first antenna from the identified antennas; selecting a first training sequence for the first antenna; preparing a first data payload; generating a first signal including the first data payload and the first training sequence; transmitting the first signal as a MIMO transmission from the first antenna of the network element; determining if a second signal is to be transmitted from the second antenna; selecting a second training sequence for the second antenna, wherein the second training sequence is different from the first training sequence; preparing a second data payload different from the first data payload; generating the second signal including the second data payload and the second training sequence; and transmitting the second signal as the MIMO transmission from the second antenna of the network element with the transmission of the first signal as the MIMO transmission, wherein the preparing the first data payload includes the preparing the second data payload includes the transmitting the first signal and the transmitting the second signal as the MIMO transmission includes using a same channelization code to transmit the first signal from the first antenna and the second signal from the second antenna.