Evolutionary Algorithm-based Space Diversity for Imperfect Channel Estimation

• Zienab Pouladmast Ghadiri,
• Ayman A. El-Saleh,
• Gobi Vetharatnam,

Vol. 8, No. 5, May 28, 2014
10.3837/tiis.2014.05.005, Download Paper (Free):

• diversity
• PSO
• GA
• MRC
• EGC
• SC
• perfect/imperfect channel estimation.

Abstract

In space diversity combining, conventional methods such as maximal ratio combining (MRC), equal gain combining (EGC) and selection combining (SC) are commonly used to improve the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) provided that the channel is perfectly estimated at the receiver. However, in practice, channel estimation is often imperfect and this indeed deteriorates the system performance. In this paper, diversity combining techniques based on two evolutionary algorithms, namely genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are proposed and compared. Numerical results indicate that the proposed methods outperform the conventional MRC, EGC and SC methods when the channel estimation is imperfect while it shows similar performance as that of MRC when the channel is perfectly estimated.

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