A method for wireless communications, comprising: mapping a plurality of bits to a plurality of modulation symbols, the plurality of bits being associated with a plurality of codewords; mapping each of the plurality of modulation symbols to a tone and a spatial stream, the tone being one of a plurality of tones available for transmission of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol and the spatial stream being one of a plurality of spatial streams available for the transmission of the OFDM symbol, wherein an OFDM symbol comprises the collection of all of the combinations of a tone and a spatial stream, wherein a subset of the plurality of modulation symbols is a subset of consecutive modulation symbols associated with one of the plurality of codewords, wherein the modulation symbols in the subset are uniformly mapped among the plurality of spatial streams and wherein the modulation symbols of the subset that are mapped to the same spatial stream are mapped to non-adjacent tones in the plurality of tones, wherein a non-adjacent tone is a tone separated from another tone by at least one tone; and transmitting the mapped modulation symbols; and wherein the modulation symbols of the subset are mapped to a matrix correlating the plurality of tones to the plurality of spatial streams and wherein the i th modulation symbol in the subset is mapped to a spatial stream having a spatial stream index of i mod N S and to a tone having a tone index of floor( i / N S) x D, where N S is the number of spatial streams available for the transmission and D is a tone mapping distance; wherein the tone mapping distance D comprises one of floor( N st / N sc), ceil(N st /N sc), or a number that is constant for a plurality of distinct values of N st, where N st is the number of the modulation symbols in an OFDM transmission symbol and where N sc is the number of the modulation symbols in the one of the plurality of codewords. mapping a plurality of bits to a plurality of modulation symbols, the plurality of bits being associated with a plurality of codewords; mapping each of the plurality of modulation symbols to a tone and a spatial stream, the tone being one of a plurality of tones available for transmission of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol and the spatial stream being one of a plurality of spatial streams available for the transmission of the OFDM symbol, wherein an OFDM symbol comprises the collection of all of the combinations of a tone and a spatial stream, wherein a subset of the plurality of modulation symbols is a subset of consecutive modulation symbols associated with one of the plurality of codewords, wherein the modulation symbols in the subset are uniformly mapped among the plurality of spatial streams and wherein the modulation symbols of the subset that are mapped to the same spatial stream are mapped to non-adjacent tones in the plurality of tones, wherein a non-adjacent tone is a tone separated from another tone by at least one tone; and transmitting the mapped modulation symbols; and wherein the modulation symbols of the subset are mapped to a matrix correlating the plurality of tones to the plurality of spatial streams and wherein the i th modulation symbol in the subset is mapped to a spatial stream having a spatial stream index of i mod N S and to a tone having a tone index of floor( i / N S) x D, where N S is the number of spatial streams available for the transmission and D is a tone mapping distance; wherein the tone mapping distance D comprises one of floor( N st / N sc), ceil(N st /N sc), or a number that is constant for a plurality of distinct values of N st, where N st is the number of the modulation symbols in an OFDM transmission symbol and where N sc is the number of the modulation symbols in the one of the plurality of codewords.