202 research outputs found
Flip-OFDM for Optical Wireless Communications
We consider two uniploar OFDM techniques for optical wireless communications:
asymmetric clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM) and Flip-OFDM. Both techniques can
be used to compensate multipath distortion effects in optical wireless
channels. However, ACO-OFDM has been widely studied in the literature, while
the performance of Flip-OFDM has never been investigated. In this paper, we
conduct the performance analysis of Flip-OFDM and propose additional
modification to the original scheme in order to compare the performance of both
techniques. Finally, it is shown by simulation that both techniques have the
same performance but different hardware complexities. In particular, for slow
fading channels, Flip-OFDM offers 50% saving in hardware complexity over
ACO-OFDM at the receiver.Comment: published in IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Paraty Brazil, Sept
201
Coded Index Modulation for Non-DC-Biased OFDM in Multiple LED Visible Light Communication
Use of multiple light emitting diodes (LED) is an attractive way to increase
spectral efficiency in visible light communications (VLC). A non-DC-biased OFDM
(NDC OFDM) scheme that uses two LEDs has been proposed in the literature
recently. NDC OFDM has been shown to perform better than other OFDM schemes for
VLC like DC-biased OFDM (DCO OFDM) and asymmetrically clipped OFDM (ACO OFDM)
in multiple LEDs settings. In this paper, we propose an efficient multiple LED
OFDM scheme for VLC which uses {\em coded index modulation}. The proposed
scheme uses two transmitter blocks, each having a pair of LEDs. Within each
block, NDC OFDM signaling is done. The selection of which block is activated in
a signaling interval is decided by information bits (i.e., index bits). In
order to improve the reliability of the index bits at the receiver (which is
critical because of high channel correlation in multiple LEDs settings), we
propose to use coding on the index bits alone. We call the proposed scheme as
CI-NDC OFDM (coded index NDC OFDM) scheme. Simulation results show that, for
the same spectral efficiency, CI-NDC OFDM that uses LDPC coding on the index
bits performs better than NDC OFDM
Performance analysis of modified asymmetrically-clipped optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems
A modification to the Asymmetrically-Clipped Optical Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (ACO-OFDM) technique is proposed through unipolar encoding. A performance analysis of the Bit Error Rate (BER) is developed and Monte Carlo simulations are carried out to verify the analysis. Results are compared to that of the corresponding ACO-OFDM system under the same bit energy and transmission rate; an improvement of 1 dB is obtained at a BER of 10-4. In addition, the performance of the proposed system in the presence of atmospheric turbulence is investigated using single-input multiple-output (SIMO) configuration and its performance under that environment is compared to that of ACO-OFDM. Energy improvements of 4 dB and 2.2 dB are obtained at a BER of 10-4 for SIMO systems of 1 and 2 photodetectors at the receiver for the case of strong turbulence, respectively
On the Performance of Single- and Multi-carrier Modulation Schemes for Indoor Visible Light Communication Systems
In this paper, we investigate and compare the performance of single- and
multi-carrier modulation schemes for indoor visible light communication (VLC).
Particularly, the performances of single carrier frequency domain equalization
(SCFDE), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and on-off keying
(OOK) with minimum mean square error equalization (MMSE) are analyzed in order
to mitigate the effect of multipath distortion of the indoor optical channel
where nonlinearity distortion of light emitting diode (LED) transfer function
is taken into account. Our results indicate that SCFDE system, in contrast to
OFDM system, does not suffer from high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) and
can outperform OFDM and OOK systems. We further investigate the impact of LED
bias point on the performance of OFDM systems and show that biasing LED with
the optimum value can significantly enhance the performance of the system.
Bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) is also considered for OFDM and SCFDE
systems to further compensate signal degradation due to inter-symbol
interference (ISI) and LED nonlinearity.Comment: 6 Pages, IEEE Globecom conference 201
EVM and Achievable Data Rate Analysis of Clipped OFDM Signals in Visible Light Communication
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been considered for
visible light communication (VLC) thanks to its ability to boost data rates as
well as its robustness against frequency-selective fading channels. A major
disadvantage of OFDM is the large dynamic range of its time-domain waveforms,
making OFDM vulnerable to nonlinearity of light emitting diodes (LEDs). DC
biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM) and asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM
(ACO-OFDM) are two popular OFDM techniques developed for the VLC. In this
paper, we will analyze the performance of the DCO-OFDM and ACO-OFDM signals in
terms of error vector magnitude (EVM), signal-to-distortion ratio (SDR), and
achievable data rates under both average optical power and dynamic optical
power constraints. EVM is a commonly used metric to characterize distortions.
We will describe an approach to numerically calculate the EVM for DCO-OFDM and
ACO-OFDM. We will derive the optimum biasing ratio in the sense of minimizing
EVM for DCO-OFDM. Additionally, we will formulate the EVM minimization problem
as a convex linear optimization problem and obtain an EVM lower bound against
which to compare the DCO-OFDM and ACO-OFDM techniques. We will prove that the
ACO-OFDM can achieve the lower bound. Average optical power and dynamic optical
power are two main constraints in VLC. We will derive the achievable data rates
under these two constraints for both additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN)
channel and frequency-selective channel. We will compare the performance of
DCO-OFDM and ACO-OFDM under different power constraint scenarios
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