by such claims resides in the fact that the functionalities provided by the various recited means are combined and brought together in the manner which the claims call for applicant thus regards any means which can provide those functionalities as equivalent as those shown herein fig1 shows an exemplary multiple input multiple output mimo system arranged in accordance with the principles of the invention so as to achieve dramatically improved capacity as compared to single antenna systems in particular fig1 shows transmitter tx 101 and receiver rx 103 transmitter 101 includes a demultiplexer demux 105 b encoders 107 including encoders 107 1 through 107 n c interleavers 109 including interleavers 109 1 through 109 n d symbol mappers 111 including symbol mappers 111 1 through 111 n e optional upconverters 115 including optional upconverters 115 1 through 115 n f optional transmit antennas 117 including optional transmit antennas 117 1 through 117 n and g rate controller 119 receiver 103 includes a optional receive antennas 131 including optional receive antennas 131 1 through 131 m b optional downconverters 133 including optional downconverters 133 1 through 133 m c channel estimator 135 d mimimum mean square error mmse filter with successive decoding and cancellation 137 and e multiplexer mux 139 demultiplexer 105 receives as an input an original data stream which is.