A receiver estimates a vector of emitted symbols over a MIMO transmission channel which is emitted by emitting antennas. The receiver receives a vector of received symbols on receiving antennas. Estimation of the vector of emitted symbols is made by calculating a metric associated with a criterion for each vector of a subset of all possible vectors of emitted symbols and selecting an estimation for said vector of emitted symbols as the vector of emitted symbols among said subset which minimizes said metric.