Minimizing the symbol-error-rate for amplify-and-forward relaying systems using evolutionary algorithms
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ArticleKAUST Department
Communication Theory LabComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Electrical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2015-02Permanent link to this record
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In this paper, a new detector is proposed for an amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying system. The detector is designed to minimize the symbol-error-rate (SER) of the system. The SER surface is non-linear and may have multiple minimas, therefore, designing an SER detector for cooperative communications becomes an optimization problem. Evolutionary based algorithms have the capability to find the global minima, therefore, evolutionary algorithms such as particle swarm optimization (PSO) and differential evolution (DE) are exploited to solve this optimization problem. The performance of proposed detectors is compared with the conventional detectors such as maximum likelihood (ML) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) detector. In the simulation results, it can be observed that the SER performance of the proposed detectors is less than 2 dB away from the ML detector. Significant improvement in SER performance is also observed when comparing with the MMSE detector. The computational complexity of the proposed detector is much less than the ML and MMSE algorithms. Moreover, in contrast to ML and MMSE detectors, the computational complexity of the proposed detectors increases linearly with respect to the number of relays.Citation
Ahmed, Q. Z., Ahmed, S., Alouini, M.-S., & Aissa, S. (2015). Minimizing the Symbol-Error-Rate for Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Systems Using Evolutionary Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 63(2), 390–400. doi:10.1109/tcomm.2014.2375255Sponsors
This work was supported by a KAUST Global Cooperative Research (GCR) fund. The work of M.-S. Alouini was supported by the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation) under NPRP Grant NPRP 5-250-2-087. This work was presented in part at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Yokohama, Japan, May 2012. The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was J. Yuan.ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2375255