Patent ID: 8798201

Claim:
A method that facilitates reducing required feedback for data rate control in wireless communication, comprising: determining one or more groupings of a plurality of transmit antennas; permuting data stream codewords according to a permutation of the one or more groupings of the transmit antennas; transmitting the permuted codewords through the one or more groupings of the transmit antennas over a forward link channel; and receiving a condensed channel quality indicator (CQI) as feedback related to transmitting the permuted codewords, wherein the condensed CQI comprises a base CQI reflecting a signal quality metric of both a first decoded codeword and a second decoded codeword, wherein determining the one or more groupings comprises identifying active antennas among the plurality of transmit antennas and disregarding inactive antennas when formulating the one or more groupings.