Transmission technique selector for radio communication systems with multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas
US7477699B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 20, 2006 |
| Grant date | Jan 13, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 30, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04H60/11
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A radio communications device (102) that has multiple receive antennas processes received data communications signals to select between space time coding and spatial multiplexing as a selected transmission technique from a base device (104) that has multiple transmit antennas. A channel throughput (402-412, 450-454) for each transmission technique is estimated based on signal to interference and noise ratios (502-512, 550-554) of signals being transmitted through a MIMO channel (140) as measured by a receiver (708). The transmission technique with the higher estimated throughput is determined. If spatial multiplexing is determined to have the higher estimated throughput and the throughput of each layer of the spatially multiplexed signal is greater than a threshold, spatial multiplexing is selected. Otherwise, space time coding is selected.
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