Data sending method, data receiving method, data sending apparatus, and data receiving apparatus

Abstract

This application provides a data sending method, a data receiving method, a data sending apparatus, and a data receiving apparatus. The method includes: precoding, by a transmit end device, a plurality of spatial flows, to obtain a plurality of precoded data streams, and transmitting the plurality of precoded data streams, where at least two spatial flows in the plurality of spatial flows are obtained by performing transmit diversity processing on one original spatial flow. In this way, some spatial flows in a plurality of spatial flows on a same time-frequency resource can be transmitted in a transmit-diversity-based beamforming transmission manner, and other spatial flows can be transmitted in a spatial multiplexing manner, thereby improving time-frequency resource utilization.

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