Patent ID: 8213528

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a stream of encoded content for transmission over a number of antennae of a transmitter, via a plurality of substreams for each of a number of transmit chains in a multicarrier communication channel; multiplexing coded bits of the encoded content to form a symbol for transmission via the plurality of substreams for each of the number of transmit chains; interleaving the coded bits of the symbol over the plurality of substreams, wherein adjacent coded bits are mapped to nonadjacent substreams by entering, in a table, the coded bits in rows and reading the coded bits out in columns, and wherein separation between the adjacent coded bits is a function of a channel bandwidth of the multicarrier communication channel; mapping the coded bits to constellation points; converting the constellation points to time domain content by inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT); forming the number of transmit chains, wherein each transmit chain comprises time domain content; and applying a cyclic shift to each transmit chain.