Patent ID: 8355426

Claim:
A method for determining a bit error rate associated with a receiver decoding data encoded in a first symbol and a second symbol, the first symbol and the second symbol further included in both a first chip block and a second chip block, the first chip block and the second chip block transmitted over a communication channel during a first symbol time period through a first antenna and a second antenna of a transmitter, the first chip block and the second chip block also transmitted over the communication channel during a second symbol time period through the first antenna and the second antenna of the transmitter, the method comprising: obtaining an input signal-to-noise ratio operating parameter for the receiver to receive the encoded data via the communication channel during the first symbol time period and the second symbol time period; obtaining a channel correlation coefficient for the communication channel, the channel correlation coefficient based on a variation of the communication channel between the first symbol time period and the second symbol time period; and determining the bit error rate associated with the receiver decoding data encoded in the first symbol and the second symbol, wherein the bit error rate is determined based on the input signal-to-noise ratio operating parameter and the channel correlation coefficient.