Multiple streams using STBC with higher data rates and diversity gain within a wireless local area network

摘要

A method of communicating data to M receiving antennas from N transmitting antennas, where M and N are integers, the method includes the steps of producing N data streams from outbound data, applying the N data streams to a space/time encoder to produce N encoded signals and transmitting the N encoded signals from N transmitting antennas. At least P transmitting antennas transmit space-time block-coded signals and (N-P) transmitting antennas transmit repetition code signals, where P is an integer. The transmission of the N encoded signals is performed such that the M receiving antennas receive at least three Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols per tone.