LTE Transmission Mode:
Transmission mode 1: Single-antenna transmission.
Transmission mode 2: Transmit diversity, SFBC(Space-Frequency Block Coding)based.
Transmission mode 3: Open-loop codebook-based precoding in the case of more than one layer, degraded to transmit diversity in the case of rank-one transmission. (SU-MIMO)
Transmission mode 4: Closed-loop codebook-based precoding. (SU-MIMO).
Transmission mode 5: Multi-user MIMO version of transmission mode 4 (up to max 2 users/layers).
Transmission mode 6: Special case of closed-loop codebook-based precoding limited to single layer transmission, also called beam-forming for single user.
Transmission mode 7: Release-8 non-codebook-based precoding supporting only single-layer transmission per UE, it is also called beam-forming here for single layer per UE.
Transmission mode 8: Release-9 non-codebook-based precoding supporting up to