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Joint Channel Parameter Estimation Using Evolutionary Algorithm

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Publication date2010
Host publicationCommunications (ICC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherIEEE
Number of pages6
ISBN (print)978-1-4244-6404-3
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications - Cape Town
Duration: 23/05/201027/05/2010

Conference

Conference2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications
CityCape Town
Period23/05/1027/05/10

Conference

Conference2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications
CityCape Town
Period23/05/1027/05/10

Abstract

This paper proposes to utilise Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to jointly estimate the Time of Arrival, Direction of Arrival, and amplitude of impinging waves in a mobile radio environment. The problem is presented as the joint Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation of the channel parameters where typically, the high dimensional non-linear cost function is deemed to be too computationally expensive to be solved directly. Simulation results show that the proposed method is extremely robust to initialisation errors and low SNR environments, while at the same time it is also computationally more efficient than popular iterative ML methods i.e. the Space-Alternating Generalised Expectation-maximisation (SAGE) algorithm.