Patent ID: 9088456
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating a transport block of information bits from a transmitter node to a receiver node, wherein the transmitter node includes a channel encoder for encoding the information bits, a modulator for receiving coded information bits and selecting modulation symbols, and a transmitter for transmitting the modulation symbols in a radio signal through a transmit antenna, and wherein the receiver node includes a diversity combining front-end receiver for receiving the radio signal, and a channel decoder for decoding the coded information bits, the method comprising the steps of: after encoding the information bits by the channel encoder, dividing the coded bits into a first part comprising antenna selection bits and a second part comprising modulation bits; utilizing the antenna selection bits by an antenna selection unit to select a transmit antenna from a plurality of transmit antennas; utilizing the modulation bits by the modulator to select modulation symbols for transmission in the radio signal; and transmitting the radio signal by the transmitter utilizing the selected antenna; wherein the step of transmitting the radio signal includes transmitting an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed, OFDM radio signal, which includes a group of N resource elements defined in time and frequency domains, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and wherein the group of N resource elements includes a plurality of resource elements located consecutively in the frequency domain.