SYMBOL VECT0R-LEVEL COMBINING WIREELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR INCREMENTAL REDUNDANCY HARQ WITH MIMO

摘要

Techniques are provided for transmitting and receiving a mother code in an incremental redundancy hybrid automatic repeat request protocol. A set of information bits corresponding to a message may be encoded and interleaved to produce the mother code. Each bit position of the mother code may be mapped to an output symbol, and each output symbol may be mapped to an antenna for transmission. One or more transmissions of symbols contained in the output symbols may be performed, where each transmission may include puncturing the mother code by selecting one or more symbols from the of output symbols, and transmitting each symbol in the one or more symbols on an antenna corresponding to that symbol. The mother code may be decoded, in part, by determining combinable bits contained within a set of received symbols, and computing one or more log likelihood ratio values corresponding to each symbol in the set of received symbols.