Multiple Transmit Multiple Receive Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (`OFDM`) comprising generating bit streams and corresponding
sets of N frequency domain carrier amplitudes ({tilde over (s)}(kN+j),
0.ltoreq.j.ltoreq.N-1) modulated as OFDM symbols subsequently to be
transmitted from a transmitter, where k is the OFDM symbol number and j
indicates the corresponding OFDM carrier number. Affix information is
inserted at the transmitter into guard intervals between consecutive time
domain OFDM symbols and are used at the receiver to estimate the Channel
Impulse Response (H.sub.lm) of the transmission channels, the estimated
Channel Impulse Response (H.sub.lm) being used to demodulate the bit
streams in the signals received at the receiver. The affix information is
known to the receiver, as well as to the transmitter, and is
mathematically equivalent to a vector (c.sub.D) that is common to the
time domain OFDM symbols multiplied by at least first weighting factors
(.alpha..sub.k) that are different for one time domain OFDM symbol (k)
than for another and second weighting factors (w.sub.i(k)) that enable
one of the transmit antenna means (i) to be distinguished from another.