Method and apparatus for combining space-frequency block coding, spatial multiplexing and beamforming in a MIMO-OFDM system

摘要

The invention relates to a method and a transmitter for transmitting data using multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, the method comprising: a transmitter generating at least one input data stream; the transmitter generating a plurality of spatial streams; the transmitter determining a transmission coding scheme, and processing the input data stream in accordance with the transmission coding scheme to generate at least two spatial streams, the transmission coding scheme being one of spatial multiplexing, SM, without frequency diversity, FD, wherein one data symbol is sent per one sub-carrier for each spatial stream; and the transmitter transmitting the at least two spatial streams via the generated spatial streams.