Patent ID: 8811371

Claim:
A method for transmitting uplink Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbols, comprising: determining whether intra-sub-frame frequency hopping is enabled; upon determining that the intra-sub-frame frequency hopping is not enabled: combining SC-FDMA symbols from two consecutive slots in a sub-frame into a symbol stream; dividing the SC-FDMA symbols in the symbol stream into pairs; for each pair of the pairs, transmitting a first symbol and a function of a second symbol on a first antenna; and for said each pair of the pairs, transmitting the second symbol and a function of the first symbol on a second antenna; upon determining that the intra-sub-frame frequency hopping is enabled: dividing a first even number of symbols in a slot of the sub-frame into two pairs; when the number of symbols in the slot of the sub-frame is odd, dividing a remaining symbol into two halves; for each pair of the two pairs, transmitting a first symbol and a function of a second symbol on the first antenna; for said each pair of the two pairs, transmitting the second symbol and a function of the first symbol on the second antenna; and when the number of said symbols in the slot of the sub-frame is odd, for the remaining symbol, transmitting a first function of the two halves on the first antenna and transmitting a second function of the two halves symbols on the second antenna.