Patent ID: 7068628

Claim:
A method for MIMO-OFDM communication, comprising: 1. on a single transmitting computing device: (a) encoding a first data block into a first plurality of encoded signals; (b) encoding a second data block into a second plurality of encoded signals; (c) transmitting each of the first and second pluralities of encoded signals on respective transmit antennas; and 2. on a single receiving computing device: (a) simultaneously receiving the transmitted signals on a plurality of receive antennas; (b) pre-whitening the received signals for each of the first and second data block signals; (c) performing maximum likelihood detection on each of the pre-whitened received signals; (d) after decoding the first data block and the second data block of the received signals, performing successive interference cancellation on the received signals by modifying the received signal by re-encoding one of the first or second data block and removing the one of the first or second data block from the received signals; and (e) and re-decoding the modified received signals.