Patent ID: 7437135

Claim:
A method for receiving at least one communication transmitted from a plurality of transmitting antennas, the method comprising: receiving a signal; for each transmitting antenna: equalizing the received signal with respect to a channel experience by the communication between the transmitting antenna and the receiving, producing symbols; constructing a contribution of that transmitting antenna to the received signal using the produced symbols; subtracting the contribution of that transmitting antenna from the received signal for use in further equalization of the received signal with respect to others of the transmitting antennas; selectively using either successive interference cancellation (SIC) or parallel interference cancellation (PIC), for SIC the equalizing the received signal with respect to one of the transmitting antennas and that one transmitting antennas contribution is cancelled from the received signal prior to the equalizing with respect to others of the transmitting antennas, and for PIC the equalizing the received signal with respect to all of the transmitting antennas is performed prior to canceling a contribution of any of the transmitting antennas from the received signal; and measuring a channel power of each transmitting antenna, comparing the measured channel power for each transmitting antenna and based on the comparison, determining whether SIC or PIC is to be selected.