said first symbol using said metrics v decoding a codeword 1 using the maximum log likelihood ratios vi re encoding said codeword 1 vii modulating said re encoded codeword 1 viii subtracting said modulated re encoded codeword 1 from said two stream signal ix determining metrics for all possibilities for second symbol in the signal obtained in viii x determining the maximum log likelihood ratios for all bits associated with second symbol and xi decoding said codeword 2 using the maximum log likelihood ratios for all bits associated with said second symbol application_number US 85727307 A description in the invention there is presented an enhanced two stream sic receiver where the exact max log outputs are obtained for all the bits in the stream first decoded with o m complexity as opposed to the conventional case involving gaussian approximation the inventive enhanced two stream receiver is flow charted in fig4 in another aspect of the invention there is presented the second version of the enhanced two stream sic receiver which aims to avoid error propagation by subtracting only correctly decoded codewords the inventive second version of the enhanced two stream receiver is flow charted in fig5 also described are methods to extend the inventive two stream receivers to multiple streams referring again to fig4 the inventive enhanced sic receiver 40 method for two stream reception includes listing out all possibilities for symbol 1 41 for each choice of symbol 1 efficiently finding the best choice of symbol 2 and evaluating the metric for that pair 42 using the.