Patent ID: 8179991

Claim:
A method for operating a receiver with an n plurality of antennas, the method comprising: obtaining n signals at the n plurality of antennas, transmitted from m antennas of a transmitter; developing, by a processor associated with the receiver, a sum signal that corresponds to the addition of the n signals that are each pre-multiplied by a respective factor λ j , where j is an index integer specifying that factor λ j multiplies the signal received from antenna j of the n plurality of antennas, developing, by the processor, values for transfer functions α ij , where i is an index that references the transmitter antennas, and j is an index that references the antennas, wherein the factors λ j are developed from the transfer functions α ij ; and detecting, by the processor, symbols transmitted by the m transmitter antennas embedded in the sum signal, wherein the factors λ j are components of a vector Λ, where the vector Λ is an eigenvalue of ΛA(Λ*) T , and where A is a matrix containing the elements α ij .