Patent ID: 7269223

Claim:
A method for increasing the throughput of a multi-user detection-based multiple access communications system, said system comprised of at least one transmitter for transmitting data signals and at least one corresponding receiver, the method comprising the steps of: representing each signature waveform corresponding to each said transmitted signal as a vector of values dependent upon several parameters; assigning the value of at least one of said parameters to each said transmitted signal; transmitting said transmitted signal via a dual polarized transmission antenna; incorporating a horizontal polarized port and a vertical polarized port in said dual polarized transmission antenna; receiving said transmitted signals via a dual polarized reception antenna; incorporating a horizontal polarized port and a vertical polarized port in said dual polarized receiving antenna; assigning polarization ellipses in a feedback communication loop between a controller and the at least one transmitter; differentiating between similar signals by detecting each signal's set of parameters, both those assigned and those left to physical circumstance; and jointly detecting data streams associated with each of the signals using a multiuser detection (MUD) processing scheme, the MUD processing scheme having been advantaged by the assignment of said parameters for each transmitted signal.