METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINING MACRO-DIVERSITY WITH TIMESLOT RE-USE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A scheme for improved throughput in a communication system by combining non-time-coincident macro diversity with timeslot re-use, enabling the benefits of macro diversity to be achieved without substantial impact on the receiver architecture or design. A first number of transmitters transmit a first version of a signal in a first transmit time slot, a second number of transmitters transmit a second version of the signal in a second transmit time slot, wherein the first and the second time internals do not overlap at a user equipment. The information is retrieved at the user equipment by at least one of selection and/or combination among the plurality of received transmissions.