Patent ID: 8451951

Claim:
A wireless communication system comprising: a base station having a transmitter that is operable to transmit wireless signals using a plurality of transmission options; and a user terminal having a receiver that is operable to receive and decode wireless signals using a plurality of receiver algorithms, the user terminal operable to receive communications from the transmitter over a multiple-input, multiple output (MIMO) channel, to select at least one coding mode to be used by the transmitter on the channel based on rates achievable using MIMO transmission, in view of the channel information, using different combinations of one of the plurality of receiver algorithms and one of the plurality of transmission options, to send information to identify the at least one coding mode to the base station using a feedback channel, each coding mode specifying at least an encoder to be used by the transmitter for the channel; and wherein the user terminal comprises a classifier to select a pair comprising one encoder for use by the transmitter and one decoder for use by the receiver based on classification of the channel calculated via a metric that depends on channel mutual information and information indicative of the encoding mode.