Adaptive Population Sizing Genetic Algorithm Assisted Maximum Likelihood Detection of OFDM Symbols in the Presence of Nonlinear Distortions

This paper presents Adaptive Population Sizing Genetic Algorithm (AGA) assisted Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the presence of Nonlinear Distortions. The proposed algorithm is simulated in MATLAB and compared with existing estimation algorithms such as iterative DAR, decision feedback clipping removal, iteration decoder, Genetic Algorithm (GA) assisted ML estimation and theoretical ML estimation. Simulation results proved that the performance of the proposed AGA assisted ML estimation algorithm is superior compared with the existing estimation algorithms. Further the computational complexity of GA assisted ML estimation increases with increase in number of generations or/and size of population, in the proposed AGA assisted ML estimation algorithm the population size is adaptive and depends on the best fitness. The population size in GA assisted ML estimation is fixed and sufficiently higher size of population is taken to ensure good performance of the algorithm but in proposed AGA assisted ML estimation algorithm the size of population changes as per requirement in an adaptive manner thus reducing the complexity of the algorithm. Index Terms — Genetic Algorithm, ML estimation, OFDM