Maximal Ratio Combining using Self Organizing Map in Wireless Channels

Abstract

The work is related to the use of Self Organizing Map (SOM) which is a type of unsupervised Artificial Neural Network (ANN), as an aid to Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) in order to improve bit error rate (BER) values of demodulated signals in wireless channels that have both Gaussian and multipath fading characteristics. Among the architectures and algorithms suggested for ANN, the SOM has the special property of effectively creating spatially organised “ internal representations” of various features of input signals and their