A transmitter, the method of the same, and a communication system using
the scheme of space-time block coding employing the multiple beams to
mitigate the multipath fading. A transmitter constituted array antennas
first performs beams scanning employing beamforming network for
estimating the channel space gain pattern, then estimates number of the
beams for transmission and the corresponding angles of each beam,
performs beam space-time block encoding of input signals then
transmitting the encoded signals. The receiver receives the signal and
performs linear channel decoding, for example, maximum likelihood
decoding.