antenna switch 230 may be a physical antenna switch or an antenna beam switch if an antenna beam switch is used for example symbols u201c x u201d and u201c x u201d are simultaneously transmitted from the first and second antennas 235 respectively when the stolen bit value is u201c 0 u201d and symbols u201c x u201d and u201c u2212 x u201d are simultaneously transmitted from the first and second antennas 235 respectively when the stolen bit value is u201c 1 u201d fig3 is a block diagram of a receiver 300 configured in accordance with the present invention the receiver 300 includes an antenna 305 a radio frequency rf front end 310 a siso demapper 315 a deinterleaver 320 a siso decoder 325 and an interleaver 330 signals received by the antenna 305 are processed by the rf front end 310 to generate samples 335 the samples 335 are fed into the siso demapper 315 where a posteriori probability is estimated for both surviving channel bits and stolen bits the siso demapper 315 retrieves information of the stolen bits by estimating which antenna of the transmitter 200 was used to transmit the channel symbols also fed into the siso demapper 315 is a priori probability of surviving channel bits and stolen bits i e the interleaved extrinsic bit probability information outputted by the interleaver 330 in the second iteration and beyond which are set to zero in the first iteration and are passed from the siso decoder 325 from the.