Patent ID: 8391322

Claim:
A method, the method comprising: receiving, by a receiver, spatially multiplexed signals via M receive antennas, wherein: said spatially multiplexed signals were transmitted by N transmit antennas; and each of M and N is an integer that is greater than or equal to two; processing, by said receiver, said received spatially multiplexed signals to recover data from said received spatially multiplexed signals, said processing comprising: generating a combined channel estimate for each of said N transmit antennas, said generating resulting in N combined channel estimates, each of said N combined channel estimates corresponding to one of said N transmit antennas and comprising information regarding each of the propagation channels between the corresponding one of said N transmit antennas and a plurality of said M receive antennas; generating M−1 channel weights based on said N combined channel estimates; and adjusting at least one of a phase and an amplitude of each of M−1 of said received spatially multiplexed signals, said adjusting utilizing said M−1 channel weights and M−1 phase shifters of said receiver.