A threaded space-time (TST) architecture in a multiple antenna wireless communication
system uses the coded transmission in each layer of a transmission resource array
as a space-time code. Each layer of a layer set is active during all available
symbol transmission intervals, and each of the transmit antennas are used equally
often, such that layers each transmit a symbol using a different antenna during
each symbol transmission interval. A receiver is provided for multi-user reception
using an iterative, soft-input/soft-output (SISO) multi-user detection algorithm
based on minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion, among other methods.
