In some papers, they mentioned BLAST System used for High data rate applications....
In some book, VBLAST is a architecture breaks the orginal data into M substreams that are transmitted on individual antennas. that substream are uncoded version.
Do you have any materials to support BLAST is a algorithm for MIMO System..
I cannot give accurate comment based on your readings (cited above).
But generally, MIMO systems are used to increase data rate ( specifically in High data rate applications.... ). Moreover, I think the second citation is the way VBLAST works.
Hi
Space time coding is the coding type that is used in MIMO system with M antenna in transmitter and N antenna in receiver.
Space time coding have 2 basic category. Just in one of them the target is increasing the data rate. In this category a very famous coding is V-BLAST.
Therefore I think the (V-)BLAST is not system or algorithm. It is a type of coding in MIMO systems.
For more information I suggest you a very good book by Jafarkhani. Its name is Space-Time Coding, Theory and Practice.