TY - EJOU AU - Daoud, Mohammad Sh. AU - Fatima, Areej AU - Khan, Waseem Ahmad AU - Khan, Muhammad Adnan AU - Abbas, Sagheer AU - Ihnaini, Baha AU - Ahmad, Munir AU - Javeid, Muhammad Sheraz AU - Aftab, Shabib TI - Joint Channel and Multi-User Detection Empowered with Machine Learning T2 - Computers, Materials \& Continua PY - 2022 VL - 70 IS - 1 SN - 1546-2226 AB - The numbers of multimedia applications and their users increase with each passing day. Different multi-carrier systems have been developed along with varying techniques of space-time coding to address the demand of the future generation of network systems. In this article, a fuzzy logic empowered adaptive backpropagation neural network (FLeABPNN) algorithm is proposed for joint channel and multi-user detection (CMD). FLeABPNN has two stages. The first stage estimates the channel parameters, and the second performs multi-user detection. The proposed approach capitalizes on a neuro-fuzzy hybrid system that combines the competencies of both fuzzy logic and neural networks. This study analyzes the results of using FLeABPNN based on a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) receiver with conventional partial opposite mutant particle swarm optimization (POMPSO), total-OMPSO (TOMPSO), fuzzy logic empowered POMPSO (FL-POMPSO), and FL-TOMPSO-based MIMO receivers. The FLeABPNN-based receiver renders better results than other techniques in terms of minimum mean square error, minimum mean channel error, and bit error rate. KW - Channel and multi-user detection; minimum mean square error; multiple-input and multiple-output; minimum mean channel error; bit error rate DO - 10.32604/cmc.2022.019295