A method for transmission is provided to generate a plurality of reference signals for a plurality of antenna ports, with each reference
signal corresponding to an antenna port; to map the plurality of reference signals to a plurality of physical antennas in accordance with a selected antenna port mapping scheme, with each reference
signal corresponding to a physical antenna, and the plurality of physical antennas being aligned sequentially with equal spacing between two immediately adjacent physical antennas; to demultiplex information to be transmitted into a plurality of
stream blocks; to insert a respective
cyclic redundancy check to each of the
stream blocks; to
encode each of the
stream blocks according to a corresponding coding scheme; to modulate each of the stream blocks according to a corresponding modulation scheme; to demultiplex the stream blocks to generate a plurality of sets of symbols, with each stream block being demultiplexed into a set of symbols; to map the plurality of sets of symbols into the plurality of antenna ports in accordance with a selected
symbol mapping scheme; and to transmit the plurality of sets of symbols via the corresponding antenna ports, with each set of symbols being transmitted via a subset of antenna ports, with, within each subset of antenna ports, the distance between the physical antennas of the corresponding antenna ports being larger than the average distance among the plurality of physical antennas.