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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2003
Applicants:
Vincent Le Nir, Rennes, FR;
Maryline Helard, Rennes, FR;
Rodolphe Le Gouable, Cesson-Sevigne, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
France Telecom, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention lies within the field of wireless communications systems with several transmitting antennas, corresponding to MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) systems or to MISO (Multiple Input Single Output) systems. According to the invention, the symbols to be transmitted are pre-encoded with a particular linear pre-encoding matrix then coded according to space-time block coding so as to benefit to the full from temporal and spatial diversities allowing at reception for particularly easy and efficient linear decoding.