Patent ID: 8514961

Claim:
A method for sending an information-bearing sequence to a receiver through cooperation of an arbitrary set of base stations, the method comprising a series of operations performed at each base station in the arbitrary set of base stations, the series of operations comprising: dividing data into blocks; and sequentially and independently encoding the blocks by precoding each data block to produce precoded data using a precoder that is common to base stations in the arbitrary set of base stations, wherein precoding each data block to produce precoded data comprises linearly precoding disjoint sub-blocks of symbol vectors into a set of precoded subvectors, creating sub-blocks from the precoded data, wherein creating sub-blocks from the precoded data comprises re-interleaving elements of the precoded vectors into a new set of vectors, encoding the sub-blocks independently using a space-time block code (STBC) that is common to base stations in the arbitrary set of base stations to generate an STBC matrix, and performing base station-specific and antenna-specific post-coding by projecting the STBC matrix on an individual steering vector that is specific to said each base station.