Patent ID: 7822395

Claim:
A system for receiving a signal, comprising: at least one processor that receives K replicas of the signal, each of the K replicas being received by one of a corresponding K antennas so as to thereby generate K received signal replicas; said at least one processor processes each of the K received signal replicas using one of N orthogonal sequences, thereby generating K processed signal replicas, wherein N is less than K; said at least one processor orthogonally multiplexes the K processed received signal replicas into a multiplexed signal provided to a signal processing chain; said at least one processor downconverts, within the signal processing chain, the multiplexed signal into a baseband multiplexed signal; and said at least one processor transforms the baseband multiplexed signal into K separate signals, wherein each of the K separate signals corresponds to one of the K replicas of the signal.