Patent ID: 8559550

Claim:
A method for transmitting data through at least a channel in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: encoding the data by performing a forward-error-correction encoding, forming a sequence of independent symbols from the encoded data, forming an M-by-T coding matrix from said sequence of independent symbols, said coding matrix comprising only the symbols of said sequence of independent symbols and zeros, each column of the coding matrix comprising N different symbols of the sequence of symbols and M−N zeros, N being an integer equal at least to one, T being an integer equal at least to two and representing the number of consecutive transmission intervals, M being an integer greater than N and representing the total number of transmit antennas, at least two columns of said coding matrix having zeros at different locations, and using the coding matrix for transmitting the sequence of independent symbols during the T consecutive transmission intervals, by transmitting one different column of the coding matrix at each transmission interval through N transmit antennas over the M transmit antennas.