BLIND PARAMETER ESTIMATION WITH GENETIC ALGORITHM IN WIRELESS FADING CHANNELS

In this paper, the performance of genetic algorithm (GA) is presented to estimate the blind channel parameters . 8-PSK signals are considered as modulation scheme. Channel is assumed as AWGN and has Rician probability distribution. Furthermore, channel is slow fading channel and channel parameters are assumed to be constant during the transmission of ten signals. Noisy and faded signals are observed from the receiver. GA is applied to estimate the channel parameters. For different fading channels and signalto-noise ratios (SNR), the mean errors of the estimated channel parameters are obtained.