Abstract
Recent information theory research has shown that the rich-scattering wireless channel is cable of enormous theoretical capabilities if the multipath is properly exploited. In effect, the unavoidable multipath is exploited to provide a very useful spatial parallelism that is used to greatly improve data transmission rates. The study of statistical distribution of errors is a prerequisite in the design of appropriate coding techniques to effectively control errors. The V-BLAST architecture is analyzed and compared for two transmitter-receiver arrangements (3 £ 3), and (6 £ 6). (3 £ 3) utilizes 9 channel paths while (6 £ 6) utilizes 36 channel paths. Utilization of more channel paths improves the overall performance. We analyzed the system performance over Rayleigh and Nakagami channels along with statisticalanalysis of errors.
