Circular antenna design by adaptive position inheritance artificial bee colony algorithm

Reliable communication is a key factor in the development of the fifth generation wireless communication systems. To achieve reliable communication, designing desirable antenna arrays is the basis so as to realize wireless data transmission. Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm has shown its powerfulness in engineering design problems, though the performance of ABC could be improved further through information exchange of existing solutions. This paper proposes an adaptive position inheritance strategy for ABC algorithm. It adaptively decides the number of positions to be inherited attached with the evolutionary process of the algorithm. Take circular antenna as design example. The proposed algorithm is tested against with method of exhaustion. Simulation results show the usefulness of the proposed algorithm. Moreover, the proposed algorithm is also compared with state of the art algorithm under ABC paradigm. It turns out that the proposed algorithm attains better design solution. Thus, the proposed algorithm is useful for providing good design solutions in reliable communication.