the core detector and uses a 4 u00d7 2 vblast detector 18 to detect the residual part fig4 illustrates a scalable mimo detector 40 for a mimo system comprising six transmitter antennas and four receiver antennas i e a 6 u00d7 4 system the scalable mimo detector 40 uses a 2 u00d7 2 sml detector 16 as the core detector and uses a 6 u00d7 2 vblast detector 19 to detect the residual part fig5 illustrates a scalable mimo detector 50 for a mimo system comprising six transmitter antennas and six receiver antennas i e a 6 u00d7 6 system the scalable mimo detector 50 uses a 4 u00d7 4 mimo detector 22 as the core detector the 4 u00d7 4 mimo detector 22 is substantially equivalent to the mimo detector 30 shown in fig3 so that the core part is still detected on a basis of a 2 u00d7 2 sml detector 16 accordingly a 6 u00d7 2 vblast detector 18 is configured to detect the residual part fig6 illustrates the performance comparison between the simplified and traditional 2 u00d7 2 and 4 u00d7 4 ml detections in which the ordinate represents the bit error rate ber whereas the abscissa shows the averaged signal noise ratio.