Patent ID: 7929633

Claim:
A method of controlling signal transmission in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication system, comprising: transmitting, at a transmitting end of the MIMO system, M number of pilot symbols via M transmitting antennas; estimating, at a receiving end of the MIMO system, channel matrix H using the M number of the pilot symbols; receiving, at the transmitting end, at least one of eigenvalues and eigenvectors corresponding to the M number of transmitting antennas from the receiving end, wherein the at least one of the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors are obtained from the channel matrix H through eigenvalue decomposition; selecting, at the transmitting end, P transmitting antennas from the M transmitting antennas by comparing a relative ratio of each eigenvalue with a specific threshold, wherein a transmitting antenna corresponding to an eigenvalue of which relative ratio is equal or smaller than the specific threshold is excluded in transmission; determining, per each antenna, a modulation and coding scheme to be allocated to each of the P transmitting antennas based on the comparison using the relative ratio of each eigenvalue; first demultiplexing a data stream into first P sub-streams corresponding to the P transmitting antennas; coding and mapping the first P sub-streams to form P sets of symbols by using the modulation and coding scheme determined per each antenna; second demultiplexing the P sets of symbols per each sub-stream; spreading the P sets of demultiplexed symbols using spreading codes which are individually determined per each sub-stream; combining the demultiplexed spread symbols per each sub-stream to form second P sub-streams; scrambling the second P sub-streams with scrambling codes; multiplying the scrambled second P sub-streams with orthogonal weight vector having a size of a transmitting antenna and the sub-streams; and transmitting, at the transmitting end, resultant P sub-streams and index information of channels selected from M channels via the P transmitting antennas, wherein P is a natural number less than M.