With the objective of reducing noise components to thereby avoid
degradation of receiving characteristics, by making an antenna
arrangement having taken into consideration transfer functions for radio
wave propagation in an MIMO system, the present invention provides an
OFDM transmission system suitable for use between a transmitting device
that performs transmission using first and second transmitting antennas
and a receiving device that performs reception using first and second
receiving antennas, wherein the first transmitting antenna and the second
transmitting antenna have an orthogonal relationship with each other and
the first receiving antenna and the second receiving antenna have an
orthogonal relationship with each other.