Combined data detection scheme for zero-padded OFDM signals in MMF links

© © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.In this letter, we propose a receiver scheme for zero-padded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) that combines low complexity from overlap-and-add equalizer and low error rate provided by successive interference cancellation data detection from optimal ordering vertical Bell Laboratories layered space-time (V-BLAST) architecture. Results of numerical simulations on multimode optical fiber links show that the proposed scheme improves the error rate performance of zero forcing (ZF) equalization receiver, reaching results similar to V-BLAST. For example, the proposed scheme can reach 33.9 Gb/s in a 600-m link, whereas the ZF receiver would reach 29.06 Gb/s and cyclic prefix OFDM only 19.37 Gb/s. These results are obtained with a reduction in computational complexity (measured in number of real products) of 86% in detection and 66% in preprocessing with respect to the ZF receiver, and 75% and 97% with respect to the V-BLAST receiver.Manuscript received May 6, 2015; accepted May 24, 2015. Date of publication June 1, 2015; date of current version July 10, 2015. This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad under Project TEC2012-38558-C02-02 and Project TEC2012-38558-C02-01, both with FEDER funds. The work of P. Medina was supported by the Formacion de Personal Investigador Grant Program of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.Medina Sevila, P.; Almenar Terré, V.; Corral, JL. (2015). Combined data detection scheme for zero-padded OFDM signals in MMF links. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 27(16):1753-1756. https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2015.2439158S17531756271

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