Patent ID: 8908787

Claim:
A method of selecting an antenna array configuration for a multi-element reconfigurable transmitter antenna and a multi-element reconfigurable receiver antenna, comprising the steps of: providing receiver look-up tables accessible by a receiver processor associated with said receiver antenna for at least 1 of N antenna array configurations, said receiver look up tables including values for antenna related parameters of discrimination between different wireless channel scenarios, said antenna related parameters comprising at least one of a signal to noise ratio (SNR), an angular spread (AS), a reciprocal condition number (D σ ), a reciprocal condition number of the transmit/receive correlation matrices (D λ ) and a delay spread (DS); said receiver processor estimating values for said antenna related parameters for at least one but less than N antenna array configurations; said receiver processor setting the antenna array configuration for the receiver antenna based at least in part on said estimated values and an array configuration retrieved from a receiver look up table using the estimated values; a transmitter processor associated with the transmitter antenna calculating SNR at the transmitter antenna; the receiver processor calculating D λ at the transmitter antenna and providing the calculated D λ at the transmitter antenna to the transmitter processor, and the transmitter processor further using the received D λ to retrieve an antenna array configuration for the transmitter antenna from the transmitter look up tables; the transmitter processor using the SNR at the transmitter antenna to retrieve an antenna array configuration for the transmitter antenna from transmitter look up tables accessible by said transmitter processor for at least 1 of N antenna array configurations, said transmitter look up tables including values for at least one of SNR, AS, D σ ,D λ and DS; and the transmitter processor setting the antenna array configuration for the transmitter antenna based on the retrieved antenna array configuration for the transmitter antenna.