Patent ID: 8811466

Claim:
An electronic device connectable to a plurality of antennas, the electronic device comprising: processing circuitry configured to: receive a message from a Multiple-In Multiple-Out (MIMO) transmitter, the received message including a training sequence from a set of a plurality of training sequences, the training sequence being uniquely linked to an identity of a cell served by the MIMO transmitter, the set of training sequences including disjoint subsets of training sequences, and each of the subsets of training sequences being associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of antennas of the MIMO transmitter; and select an antenna of the plurality of antennas of the MIMO transmitter from which the message is transmitted in response to at least one of: the training sequence, and information about the disjoint subsets of training sequences, wherein the disjoint subsets of training sequences of the set of training sequences are associated with a first antenna of the plurality of antennas of the MIMO transmitter and are disjoint with respect to a set of training sequences associated with a second antenna of the plurality of antennas of the MIMO transmitter.