Patent ID: 7778355

Claim:
A method of transmitting, comprising: (a) applying symbol streams s 1 , s 2 , . . . , s P to a plurality of space-time transmit diversity encoders at a first time, where P is an integer greater than 3; (b) encoding s 1 to produce streams x 1 , x 2 ; (c) encoding stream s P to produce streams x 2P-1 x 2P ; (d) linearly transforming said x 1 , x 2 , . . . x 2p into y 1 , y 2 , . . . , y 2P ; and (e) transmitting to a recipient said y 1 , y 2 , . . . , y 2P , (f) wherein said linearly transforming of step (d) is a weighted permutation of said x 1 , x 2 derived from transmission channel coefficients, and wherein said weighted permutation changes the order of symbols from streams x 1 , x 2 , . . . , x 2P to streams y 1 , y 2 , . . . , y 2P .