A method of communication in a Multiple Input Multiple Output, MIMO, system, comprising: transmitting, by a base station, independent parallel downlink control signals including control information for each data stream; and transmitting the data streams, wherein a modulation and coding set, MCS, is independently applied per antenna for the data streams, according to the MCS being defined for each antenna based on channel quality information received from a mobile terminal, wherein each of the independent parallel downlink control signals includes a User Equipment Identifier, UE ID, wherein each data stream is transmitted from each antenna, wherein the control information corresponds to at least one from a modulation method used to modulate the data streams, a number of OVSF, Orthogonal Variable Spread Factor, codes used to spread the data streams, and a re-transmission scheme used to request retransmission of at least one of the data streams, wherein the modulation method, the number of OVSF codes, and the re-transmission scheme are set differently using a Per Antenna Rate Control, PARC, method, wherein the different OVSF codes are used to discriminate each control signal so as to provide a backward compatibility with the mobile terminal configured for a High Speed Downlink Packet Access, HSDPA, using a single antenna, wherein the control signals are transmitted on respective High-Speed Shared Control Channels, HS-SCCHs, wherein the different OVSF codes are multiplied with each of the control signals transmitted on the HS-SCCHs, and wherein a number of the independent parallel downlink control signals equals a number of the data streams such that a ratio of the data streams to the independent parallel downlink control signals is 1: 1 such that a total number of data stream is equal to a total number of HS-SCCHs. transmitting, by a base station, independent parallel downlink control signals including control information for each data stream; and transmitting the data streams, wherein a modulation and coding set, MCS, is independently applied per antenna for the data streams, according to the MCS being defined for each antenna based on channel quality information received from a mobile terminal, wherein each of the independent parallel downlink control signals includes a User Equipment Identifier, UE ID, wherein each data stream is transmitted from each antenna, wherein the control information corresponds to at least one from a modulation method used to modulate the data streams, a number of OVSF, Orthogonal Variable Spread Factor, codes used to spread the data streams, and a re-transmission scheme used to request retransmission of at least one of the data streams, wherein the modulation method, the number of OVSF codes, and the re-transmission scheme are set differently using a Per Antenna Rate Control, PARC, method, wherein the different OVSF codes are used to discriminate each control signal so as to provide a backward compatibility with the mobile terminal configured for a High Speed Downlink Packet Access, HSDPA, using a single antenna, wherein the control signals are transmitted on respective High-Speed Shared Control Channels, HS-SCCHs, wherein the different OVSF codes are multiplied with each of the control signals transmitted on the HS-SCCHs, and wherein a number of the independent parallel downlink control signals equals a number of the data streams such that a ratio of the data streams to the independent parallel downlink control signals is 1: 1 such that a total number of data stream is equal to a total number of HS-SCCHs.