Throughput conditions limited by multiplicative noise may be improved by distributing a transmission power across MIMO data streams communicated between MIMO communication nodes. In particular, the transmission power is distributed based on knowledge at the transmitter of the MIMO channel to decrease the transmission power allocated to one or more of the data streams associated with a dominant signal path relative to the transmission power allocated to one or more data streams associated with a weaker signal path to increase at least one of a quality and a throughput condition of the MIMO channel.