Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time

Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time

Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (BLAST) is a transceiver architecture for offering spatial multiplexing
over multiple-antenna wireless communication systems. Such systems have multiple antennas at both the transmitter
and the receiver in an effort to exploit the many different paths between the two in a highly-scattering wireless
environment. BLAST was developed by Gerard Foschini at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories (now
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs). By careful allocation of the data to be transmitted to the transmitting antennas, multiple
data streams can be transmitted simultaneously within a single frequency band the data capacity of the system
then grows directly in line with the number of antennas (subject to certain assumptions). This represents a significant
advance on current, single-antenna systems.[1]

V-BLAST
V-BLAST (Vertical-Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time) is a detection algorithm to the receipt of multi-antenna
MIMO systems.[2] Available for the first time in 1996 at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey in the United States by
Gerard J. Foschini. He proceeded simply to eliminate interference caused successively issuers.
Its principle is quite simple: to make a first detection of the most powerful signal. It regenerates the received signal
from this user from this decision. Then, the signal is regenerated subtracted from the received signal and, with this
new sign, it proceeds to the detection of the second user's most powerful, since it has already cleared the first and so
forth. What gives a vector containing received less interference.
The complete detection algorithm can be summarized as recursive as follows:
Initialize:

Recursive:

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References
Further reading
Jankiraman, Mohinder (2004). Space-time codes and MIMO systems (http://books.google.com/
books?id=HU-T7y16AGEC&printsec=frontcover). Artech House.

External links
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/BellLabs

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