Patent ID: 8121208

Claim:
A receiver of a multi input multi output system (MIMO) in a space-time encoding method comprising: M receive antennas corresponding to a number of receive antennas used for receiving a signal from a space channel (M is a natural number); a maximum likelihood detector for detecting an information symbol having a minimum Euclidean distance by substituting information symbols for the signals received through the receive antennas; and a transmit antenna selector coupled between the receive antennas and the maximum likelihood detector, the transmit antenna selector for estimating a channel by using the signals received through the receive antennas, generating transmit antenna selection information for selecting M transmit antennas among N transmit antennas (N is a natural number greater than M) in a transmitter of the MIMO system with reference to an estimated channel estimate, and returning the transmit antenna selection information to the transmitter. wherein the receiver selects the M transmit antennas corresponding to a channel maximizing channel capacity by using the channel estimate, and wherein the channel capacity Cp is satisfied with the equation C p = log 2 ⁡ ( det ⁡ ( I 2 × 2 + ρ 2 ⁢ H p ⁢ H p H ) ) wherein I 2×2 denotes a 2×2 identity matrix, H P denotes a channel matrix, and H P H denotes a hermitian matrix of the H P matrix, when a vector value y of the signals received through the receive antennas satisfies the equation: y = vec ⁡ ( Y ) = ⁢ ρ 2 ⁢ ( H p 0 2 × 2 0 2 × 2 H p ) ⁢ Φ ⁢ ⁢ s + vec ⁡ ( N ) = ⁢ ρ 2 ⁢ ⁢ s + n wherein O 2×2 denotes a 2×2 zero matrix, φ denotes a space-time design element, and s denotes a transmission symbol, where ρ denotes a reception signal to noise ratio, Hp denotes a channel formed between the receive antennas and the transmit antennas, and Φ = 1 2 ⁢ ( 1 ϕ 0 0 0 0 θ - θ ⁢ ⁢ ϕ 0 0 θ θ ⁢ ⁢ ϕ 1 - ϕ 0 0 ) , s = [ s 1 ⁢ ⁢ s 2 ⁢ ⁢ s 3 ⁢ ⁢ s 4 ] T wherein T denotes a transposed matrix and θ denotes √φ.