APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR FORMING A SYSTEMATIC, RECURSIVE, SPACE-TIME CODE

摘要

Apparatus (26), and an associated method, for encoding digital data to be communicated by a sending station, such as a base transceiver station (12) of a cellular communication system (10). Space-time diversity is provided pursuant to the encoding, thereby to facilitate communication of data upon communication channels (18, 20) susceptible to fading conditions. A systematic, space-time, and recursive coder (28) includes a coset selecting coder for forming a coset of a multi-dimensional constellation. The coset is used by a signal point selector to select a multi-dimensional constellation point.