Research Article

Receiver Diversity Combining Using Evolutionary Algorithms in Rayleigh Fading Channel

Table 3

Performance comparison of ICA and PSO assisted for different population numbers.

ICAPSO

Number of countries5
10
15
20
25
Number of particles5
10
15
20
25
Average output SNR ( 8.538.789.09
9.15
9.21
Average output SNR ( 8.46
8.63
8.96
9.06
9.13
Max convergence iterations89
72
53
29
18
Max convergence iterations92
74
52
38
31
Mean convergence iterationsNA92684325Mean convergence iterationsNA96884739
Number of fitness evaluations445720795580450Number of fitness evaluations460740780760775