| CPC H04B 7/0486 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0404 (2013.01); H04B 7/0456 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) with N transmit (Tx) antenna elements in a wireless network, wherein N is an integer value, the method comprising:
receiving precoding information from a base station;
constructing a full-rank complex Hadamard matrix (CHM) of order N using the precoding information;
precoding an uplink signal using a precoding matrix composed of one or more columns of the full-rank CHM; and
transmitting the precoded uplink signal to the base station.
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