The eNBs 102 may have multiple antennas supporting MIMO technology. The use of MIMO technology enables the eNBs 102 to exploit the spatial domain to support spatial multiplexing, beamforming, and transmit diversity. Spatial multiplexing may be used to transmit different streams of data simultaneously on the same frequency. The data streams may be transmitted to a single UE 300 to increase the data rate or to multiple UEs 300 to increase the overall capacity of the network 100. For instance, an eNB 102 may spatially precode each data stream and then transmits each spatially precoded stream through multiple transmit antennas on the downlink. The spatially precoded data streams arrive at the UE(s) 300 with different spatial signatures, which enables each UE 300 to recover the one or more data streams destined for that UE 300. On the uplink, each UE 300 transmits one or more spatially precoded data streams to enable the eNB 102 to identify the source of each spatially precoded data stream.

UEs 300 may be any telecommunication device that is capable of transmitting and/or receiving voice/data over the network 100. UEs 300 may include, but are not limited to, mobile computing devices, such as laptops, tablets, smart phones, and wearable computing devices (e.g., headsets and/or watches). UEs 300 may also include other computing devices having other form factors, such as computing devices included in desktop computers, vehicles, gaming devices, televisions, or other appliances (e.g., networked home automation devices and home appliances). The UEs 300 may also have antenna arrays 250 of multiple antennas to support MIMO technology (e.g., MIMO antenna configuration).