An adaptive technique for transmit antenna diversity with feedback

Transmit antenna diversity (TAD) has been employed for third-generation wireless systems. We propose an adaptive technique for TAD with feedback. It is shown that the proposed adaptive technique can efficiently increase the number of transmit antennas without significantly increasing the feedback bit rate under ideal conditions. As a result, we can increase the number of transmit antennas and expect a performance improvement. Unfortunately, the proposed adaptive technique suffers from channel variation and error propagation due to feedback error. From this, the use of the adaptive technique shall be limited: it can be effective for indoor communications and for pedestrians with a reliable feedback channel.