Wireless communication system and method using stochastic space-time/frequency division multiplexing

摘要

A method and apparatus for wireless transmission of a digital bit stream. The present method employs diversity techniques to minimize multipath fading. Digital bits are converted into symbols and the symbols are provided to a number of diversity branches. Each diversity branch has its own antenna. The symbols sent to each diversity branch may be multiplied by a different phase factor or amplitude factor. The phase factors and amplitude factors may be randomly selected. Also, wireless channels can be monitored for channel quality. In this case, the channel quality measurements are used to select the phase factors and the amplitude factors. Also, the symbols can be grouped into frames before transmission. In this case, the frames can be multiplied by matrices comprising phase factors and amplitude factors. Also in this case, the frames can undergo cyclic shifting, which provides an additional measure of diversity.