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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1995
Vijitha Weerackody, Watchung, NJ (US);
William Glenn Zeng, Pasadena, CA (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a fast fading packet diversity transmission method and system for reducing the effects of multipath fading on slow fading channels. One embodiment of the present invention includes a modulator for modulating information packets and a plurality of M multipliers for transmitting the modulated information packets from M antennas with up to M sets of M fixed phase offsets. Another embodiment of the present invention transmits a first group of information packets from M antennas with up to M sets of M fixed phase offsets and a second group of information packets with M slow time varying phase offsets.