Patent attributes
The present invention provides a data transmission method and device. The method includes: performing, by the first communications equipment, multi-stream data transmission with the second communications equipment according to a first antenna port, where the first antenna port is an antenna port, of the first communications equipment, satisfying a condition for multi-stream data transmission between the first communications equipment and the second communications equipment. The method provided in embodiments of the present invention improves applicability of a multi-stream data transmission system for line of sight propagation.