A wireless communication system includes a base station having a plurality of
transmit
antennas transmits pilot signals to a subscriber station. The subscriber station
performs channel measurements on the signals received from the base station through
at least two transmit paths and sends path characteristic information for each
path to the base station. The base station uses the path characteristic information
to determine how best to transmit data from the multiple transmit antennas to a
single receive antenna at the subscriber station.
Through the use of pre-correction techniques, data signals are transmitted
through the multiple transmit antennas such that signals received through the multiple
transmit paths can be demodulated and decoded as a single signal.