D-Blast Definition The explosive growth of both the wireless industry and the Internet is creating a huge market

opportunity for wireless data access. Limited Internet access, at very low speeds, is already available as an enhancement to some existing cellula r systems. However those systems were designed with purpose of providing voice s ervices and at most short messaging, but not fast data transfer. Traditional wir eless technologies are not very well suited to meet the demanding requirements o f providing very high data rates with the ubiquity, mobility and portability cha racteristics of cellular systems. Increased use of antenna arrays appears to be the only means of enabling the type of data rates and capacities needed for wire less Internet and multimedia services. While the deployment of base station arra ys is becoming universal it is really the simultaneous deployment of base statio n and terminal arrays that can unleash unprecedented levels of performance by op ening up multiple spatial signaling dimensions. Theoretically, user data rates a s high as 2 Mb/sec will be supported in certain environments, although recent st udies have shown that approaching those might only be feasible under extremely f avorable conditions-in the vicinity of the base station and with no other users competing for band width. Some fundamental barriers related to the nature of rad io channel as well as to the limited bandwidth availability at the frequencies o f interest stand in the way of high data rates and low cost associated with wide access. In wireless systems, radio waves do not propagate simply from transmit antenna t o receive antenna, but bounce and scatter randomly off objects in environment. T his scattering is known as multipath as it result in multiple copies of the tran smitted signals arriving at the receiver via different scattered paths. Multipat h has always been regarded as impairment, because the images arrive at the recei ver at slightly different times and thus can interfere destructively, canceling each other out. However recent advances in information theory have shown that, w ith simulations use of antenna arrays at both base station and terminal, multipa th interference can be not only mitigated, but actually exploited to establish m ultiple parallel channels that operate simultaneously and in the same frequency band. Based on this fundamental idea, a class of layered space-time architecture was proposed and labeled BLAST. Using BLAST the scattering characteristics of t he propagation environment is used to enhance the transmission accuracy by treat ing the multiplicity of the propagation environment is used to enhance the trans mission accuracy by treating the multiplicity of scattering paths as separate pa rallel sub channels. The original scheme D-BLAST was a wireless set up that used a multi element ante nna array at both the transmitter and receiver, as well as diagonally layered co ding sequence. The coding sequence was to be dispersed across diagonals in space -tome. In an independent Rayleigh scattering environment, this processing struct ure leads to theoretical rates that grow linearly with the number of antennas wi th these rates approaching 90% of Shannon capacity. Rayleigh scattering refers t o the scattering of light of f the molecules of air, and can be extended to. The original scheme D-BLAST was a wireless set up that used a multi element ante nna array a both the transmitter and receiver, as well as diagonally layered cod ing sequence. The coding sequence was to be dispersed across diagonals in spacetime. In an independent Rayleigh scattering environment, this processing structu re leads to theoretical rates that grow linearly with the number of antennas the se rates approaching 90% of Shanon capacity. Rayleigh scattering of light off th e molecules of air, and can be extended to scattering from particles up to about a tenth of the wavelength of light. Rayleigh scattering can be considered to be elastic scattering because the energies of scattered photons do not change.