Transmit diversity

Transmit diversity is radio communication using signals that originate from two or more independent sources that have been modulated with identical information-bearing signals and that may vary in their transmission characteristics at any given instant.

It can help overcome the effects of fading, outages, and circuit failures. When using diversity transmission and reception, the amount of received signal improvement depends on the independence of the fading characteristics of the signal as well as circuit outages and failures.

See also

• Antenna diversity
• Diversity gain
• Diversity scheme
• Dynamic Single Frequency Networks (DSFN)
• Macro diversity
• Multiple-input multiple-output communications (MIMO)
• Single frequency networks (SFN)
• Space-time block coding based transmit diversity (STTD)
• Soft handover