Peak to Average Power Ratio Reduction using a Hybrid of Bacterial Foraging and Modified Cuckoo Search Algorithm in MIMO-OFDM System

The Partial Transmit Sequence which reduces the PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio) in Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system using a novel optimization algorithm is proposed in this study. This novel optimization algorithm is based on a hybrid of Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO) and Modified Cuckoo Search algorithm (MCS) and is thus called HBFOMCS. In HBFOMCS, reproduction of individuals in a new generation is created, not only by swim and tumble operation as in BFO, but also by MCS. The natural reproduction step of BFO is swapped by the concept of searching best solutions as in MCS which then increases the possibility of generating the elite individuals for next generation. These enhanced reproduction step constitute the ready-to-perform population for the new generation once the initial population is performed by swim and tumble operation. Afterwards, discover probability is applied to abandon the worst solution due to the nature of MCS. HBFOMCS is applied to optimize the best combination from a set of allowed phase factors in Partial Transmit Sequence (PTS) technique. The performance of HBFOMCS is compared with BFO, Cuckoo Search (CS) and Modified cuckoo search MCS in the PAPR reduction in MIMO-OFDM system, accordingly proving its proficiency.