System and method for link adaptation in DIDO multicarrier systems

1. A machine-implemented method comprising:

determining channel state information (CSI) within a multiuser (MU) multiple antenna system (MU-MAS) comprising of a plurality of distributed MU-MAS antennas or distributed wireless transceiver stations communicating concurrently with more than one of a plurality of clients utilizing Near-Vertical Incidence Skywave (NVIS) communications, the CSI defining a channel state between each of a plurality of MU-MAS antennas and each of the clients;

using the CSI available at the MU-MAS antennas to determine MU-MAS precoding weights for each of the channels between each of the plurality of MU-MAS antennas and antennas of each of the clients;

using the CSI and/or MU-MAS precoding weights to determine link quality metrics defining link quality between each of the plurality of MU-MAS antennas and the antennas of each of the clients by using open-loop or closed-loop schemes;

using the link-quality metrics, to determine modulation coding schemes (MCSs) for different clients; and

transmitting simultaneously precoded non-interfering data streams from the plurality of MU-MAS antennas to the clients using the determined MCSs for those clients.

2. The method as in claim 1 wherein, in a system which employs orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), the link quality metric comprises an average signal to noise ratio over all OFDM tones.

3. The method as in claim 1 wherein the link quality metric is a frequency response of the effective channels between the plurality of MU-MAS antennas and the antennas of the clients.

4. The method as in claim 1 wherein, in a system which employs orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), the method further comprising:

based on the link-quality metrics, determining the different OFDM tones to be used to communicate with each of the different clients.

5. The method as in claim 1 further comprising:

transmitting an indication of the MCSs to be used for communication to each of the respective clients.

6. The method as in claim 5 wherein, in a system which employs orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), the method further comprising:

transmitting an indication of the different tones to be used for communication to each of the respective clients.

7. The method as in claim 1 further comprising adjusting the MCSs based on detected temporal variations of channel gain.

8. The method as in claim 1 wherein the MCSs are recalculated every fraction of channel coherence time.

9. The method as in claim 1 further comprising implementing MU-MAS precoding with inter-MU-MAS-cluster interference (IMCI) cancellation to transmit from the plurality of MU-MAS antennas and create zero RF energy at the location of a client.

10. The method as in claim 1 further comprising transmitting from M distributed MU-MAS antennas to create up to (M−1) points of zero RF energy.

11. The method as in claim 10 wherein the wherein the MU-MAS antennas are aware of the channel state information between the transmitters and the receivers, and the transmitters utilize the channel state information to determine interfering signals to be simultaneously transmitted.

12. The method as in claim 11 using block diagonalization precoding.

13. The method as in claim 12 wherein the MU-MAS precoding is used to create points of zero RF energy to the clients at locations corresponding to locations of each of the clients.

14. The method as in claim 13 wherein the points of zero RF energy comprise points at which interference is removed between adjacent MU-MAS clusters.