Electromagnetism‐like method tuned constant modulus algorithm for blind detector in multicarrier CDMA system

This paper presents an efficient meta‐heuristic algorithm based on electromagnetism‐like method, which has been successfully implemented in multiuser detection problems. The contribution revisits blind multiuser detection for multicarrier code division multiple access systems using a novel combined adaptive step‐size constant modulus algorithm (CMA) and electromagnetism‐like method scheme. To work around potentially computational intractability and improved the capability of suppressing multiple access interference (MAI) for Multicarrier CDMA System, the proposed scheme exploits heuristics in consideration of both global and local exploration of the step size of the CMA. Simulation results obtained confirm that faster convergence and desirable BER performance with low computational complexity can be achieved with electromagnetism‐like method based CMA scheme, compared with the previous step‐size CMA scheme, genetic algorithm, and particle swarm optimization with CMA scheme. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.