Patent ID: 6920192

Claim:
A method for providing adaptation of an antenna array in a base station associated with a cell of a cellular wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: estimating a spatial covariance matrix for each of a plurality of mobile stations communicating with the base station, the spatial covariance matrix for a given one of the mobile stations being determined at least in part based on a unique hopping sequence of the mobile station and providing a correlation between signals received from the mobile station at different antenna elements within the antenna array; processing the estimated spatial covariance matrices to generate an estimate of an interference matrix for the plurality of mobile stations; estimating an array response for the given mobile station from the interference matrix; processing the array response for the given mobile station to generate an antenna weighting associated with the given mobile station; and applying the antenna weighting to a signal received from the given mobile station in order to facilitate detection of a corresponding transmitted symbol.