Patent ID: 8634483

Claim:
A wireless communication device comprising: a medium access control device configured to determine a first parameter based on a condition of a channel, wherein the wireless communication device communicates, via the channel, with a device separate from the wireless communication device; a first module configured to, based on the first parameter, determine whether an operating environment of the wireless communication device is a rich-scattering environment or a line of sight environment; and a second module configured to adjust a second parameter of the wireless communication device based on the operating environment as determined by the first module, wherein the second parameter is different than the first parameter, the second parameter is a spatial multiplexing of the wireless communication device, and the second module is configured to (i) increase the spatial multiplexing responsive to the operating environment being determined by the first module to be a rich-scattering environment, and (ii) decrease the spatial multiplexing responsive to the operating environment being determined by the first module to be a line of sight environment.