RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER ADAPTATION USING STOCHASTIC GRADIENT HILL CLIMBING WITH GENETIC MUTATION

A receiver receives communications over a communication channel, which may distort an incoming communication signal. In order to counter this distortion, the frequency response of the receiver is manipulated by adjusting several parameters. Each parameter controls at least a portion of the frequency response of the receiver. The optimal values for the parameters are determined by modifying an initial set of values for the parameters through one or more stochastic hill climbing operations until a performance metric associated with the receiver reaches a local optimum. The modified values are displaced through one or more mutation operations. The stochastic hill climbing operations may subsequently be performed on the mutated values to generate the final values for the parameters.