A wireless communication system, and method using multiple antennas,
includes a base station that applies predetermined weight vectors to
multi-user signals and transmits the multi-user signals through a
plurality of transmission antennas, and a plurality of mobile stations
that receive and process the multi-user signals, wherein each mobile
station includes a signal reception unit that processes the multi-user
signals, and a feedback signal generation unit that estimates channel
characteristics, over which the multi-user signals have been transmitted,
from the multi-user signals, classifies a plurality of weight vectors to
be applied to the estimated channel characteristics into a plurality of
sets such that vectors orthogonal to one another are classified into a
single set, selects a set maximizing a transmission capacity from among
the classified sets, and feeds back weight indexes of weight vectors
included in the selected set and weighted channel information to the base
station.