Patent ID: 8005164

Claim:
A system comprising: an antenna array comprising at least one omni-directional antenna to transmit a MIMO signal into a MIMO channel; a bit stream merger to merge a bit stream of a wireless apparatus with at least one bit stream associated with a wireless device in a common transmit cluster to form a merged bit stream, wherein the bit stream of the wireless apparatus and the at least one bit stream associated with the wireless device are to be transmitted to a network access station by the transmit cluster, via the MIMO channel; a time-frequency encoder and interleaver to time-frequency encode and interleave the merged bit stream to generate a coded bit stream; and at least a first and second encoding path, each coupled to the time frequency coder and interleaver, and the antenna array, wherein the first encoding path modulates the coded bit stream according to a first modulation scheme and the second encoding path modulates the coded bit stream according to a second modulation scheme.