Patent ID: 8565211

Claim:
A method for data transmission in a wireless communication system with multiple transmit antennas, the method comprising: repetitively generating a data symbol stream by performing constellation mapping on a codeword; generating a frequency-domain symbol by performing discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on the repetitively generated data symbol stream wherein a size of DFT performed on the repetitively generated data symbol stream varies depending on the number of the multiple transmit antennas, and wherein a power amplitude of the repetitively generated data symbol stream is inversely proportional to a number of repetition of the generation of the data symbol; mapping the frequency-domain symbol to subcarriers separately allocated for each of the multiple transmit antennas; generating a transmit symbol by performing inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on the subcarriers to which the frequency-domain symbol is mapped, wherein the transmit symbol is a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbol or a clustered DFT-spread-orthogonal frequency division multiple access (DFT-S-OFDM) symbol, wherein if the transmit symbol is the SC-FDMA symbol, the frequency-domain symbol is allocated to consecutive subcarriers or equally-spaced subcarriers, wherein if the transmit symbol is the clustered DFT-S-OFDM symbol, a certain portion of symbol streams among the frequency-domain symbol are allocated to consecutive subcarriers and a remaining portion of symbol streams among the frequency-domain symbol are allocated to consecutive subcarriers spaced apart by a specific frequency interval, and wherein the SC-FDMA symbol and the clustered DFT-S-OFDM symbol are used for an uplink transmission; and transmitting the transmit symbol by using the multiple transmit antennas.