METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING ANTENNA CONFIGURATION INFORMATION VIA MASKING

摘要

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for conveying information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme to a recipient, such as a mobile device. In particular, information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme can be conveyed by masking, such as cyclic redundancy check masking, to provide information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme. In this regard, a set of masks can be determined based upon hamming distances between the masks and bit diversities between the masks and where each of the masks within the set is associated with an antenna configuration and a transmission diversity scheme.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
selecting a bit mask associated with an antenna configuration and a transmission diversity scheme, the bit mask being selected from a set of bit masks, the set of bit masks including a first bit mask associated with a single antenna configuration, a second bit mask associated with a two antenna configuration, and a third bit mask associated with a four antenna configuration, wherein a hamming distance between the first bit mask and the second bit mask is larger than the hamming distances between any other pair of the first, second and third bit masks; and applying, with a processor, the bit mask associated with the antenna configuration and the transmission diversity scheme to cyclic redundancy check bits.