| CPC H04B 7/0456 (2013.01) | 20 Claims |

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1. A method of providing defective transmit chain mitigation, comprising:
determining, in a telecommunications system having a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna system, a set of defective transmit chains within a group of transmit chains;
retrieving, from a storage medium, stored characteristics of defective transmission elements;
computing a pre-coding matrix taking into account the defective transmit chains; and
transmitting signals using the MIMO antenna system in accordance with the computed pre-coding matrix.
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